25. Most canvases used by artists in the preindustrial United States were imported from Europe, but the wooden stretchers on which the canvas was mounted were always made from American wood. Retailers of art supplies, both in the United States and Europe, often stamped blank canvases with their names and addresses. Completed painting brought from Europe to America were frequently taken off their European stretchers for shipping and remounted on American stretchers after their arrival.

A cultural historian could legitimately use the information in the passage above in establishing that a painting of that era done on

(A) canvas sold by a European retailer and mounted on a stretcher of American wood is probably an American painting

(B) canvas sold by an American retailer and mounted on a stretcher of American wood is probably an American painting

(C) canvas sold by an American retailer and not mounted on a stretcher is probably not an American painting

(D) unmarked canvas mounted on a stretcher of American wood is probably an American painting

(E) unmarked canvas that is not mounted on a stretcher is probably not an American painting

Questions 1-7

A disc jockey is planning a new format for her program, which has eight slots numbered one through eight, consecutively. The program must consist of the following eight segments: one weather report, two commercials, one sports report, and four records, not necessarily in the order given. Each of these eight segments must be aired only once during the program according to the following conditions:

The two commercials cannot be aired consecutively.

The program must begin with either a commercial or the weather report and must end with either a commercial or the weather report.

1. Which of the following is a possible assignment of segments for the radio program to slots one through eight, respectively?

(A) Commercial, record, weather report, record, sports report, record, record, commercial

(B) Record, record, commercial, commercial, record, record, sports report, weather report

(C) Record, sports, report, commercial, record, weather report, record, commercial, record

(D) Weather report, record, commercial, record, sports report, record, commercial, record

(E) Weather report, record, record, sports report, record, record, commercial, commercial

2. If the weather report is aired in slot one, each of the following could be the slot occupied by one of the commercials EXCEPT

(A) two

(B) three

(C) four

(D) five

(E) seven

3. Which of the following assignments of segments to slots two and three, respectively, results in one and only one type of segment to be assigned to each of the remaining slot?

(A) Weather report, record

(B) Weather report, sports report

(C) Record, sports report

(D) sports report, commercial

(E) Sports report, record

4. If a weather report is aired in slot tow, and if the sports report is aired in slot five, all of the following must be true EXCEPT:

(A) A record is aired immediately after the sports report.

(B) A record is aired in slot three.

(C) A commercial is aired in slot four.

(D) A commercial is aired in slot eight.

(E) A commercial is aired immediately after a record.

5. If a program begins with the weather report, and if one commercial is aired immediately before the sports report and one commercial is aired immediately after it, the records must be assigned to slots

(A) one through four

(B) two through five

(C) three through six

(D) four through seven

(E) five through eight

6. If a record is aired after each commercial, and if the sports report is aired in slot five, which of the following must be true?

Ⅰ. A record is aired is slot seven.

Ⅱ. A commercial is aired in slot three.

Ⅲ. The sports report is aired between two records.

(A) Ⅰonly

(B) Ⅱonly

(C) Ⅲonly

(D) Ⅰand Ⅱonly

(E) Ⅱand Ⅲ only

7. If the weather report is aired in slot four, and if exactly two of the four records are played consecutively, the sports report must be aired in slot

(A) two

(B) three

(C) five

(D) six

(E) seven

8. A man charged with theft of cable television services said, "They even want restitution of $662 they claim I owe them, which is ridiculous, because I didn't enjoy some of those shows at all."