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GED Sample Test Questions
Language Arts: Reading
The Language Arts, Reading Test contains 40 multiple-choice
questions that measure your ability to comprehend and interpret
workplace and academic reading selections and to apply those
interpretations to new contexts. The questions ask you to understand,
apply, analyze, and synthesize information that you are given in the
reading selections.
Literary texts constitute 75% of each test and include at least one
selection from each of the following areas:
- Poetry
- Drama
- Prose fiction before 1920
- Prose fiction between 1920 and 1960
- Prose fiction after 1960
Nonfiction texts constitute 25% of each test and include two
selections of nonfiction prose from any two of the following areas:
- Nonfiction prose
- Critical review of visual and performing arts
- Workplace and community documents, such as mission and goal
statements, rules for employee behavior, legal documents, and
communications (for example, letters and excerpts from manuals)
The reading selections in the Language Arts, Reading Test
range from 200 to 400 words, with poetry running from 8 to 25 lines. A
purpose question appears in bold before each selection; the question is
designed solely to help you focus and provide a purpose for reading the
text. You are not asked to answer the purpose question. Each selection
is followed by four to eight questions.
SAMPLE QUESTIONS
Directions: Choose the one best answer to each
question.
Questions 1 through 8 refer to the following document:
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How Shall Employees Conduct
Themselves?
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Guidelines for Conducting Business with Those
outside Our Company
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Our employees are the most effective
advertisement of our values, beliefs, and abilities. Always keep in mind
that when you are acting in your capacity as our employee, you are
contributing materially to the public image and the ultimate success of
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Gifts for Influence |
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No payment or gift of money, goods, or
services should be given or received to influence government or business
decisions. Accurate and complete records for all accounts will be
strictly monitored for everyone’s protection.
If it becomes apparent to you in the course of the performance of your
business responsibilities that a payment of some kind is expected by
your business associate, please contact your division president.
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Conflict of Interest |
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A conflict of interest can be
described as a situation where a person has a vested interest in two
areas of the business world that may give him or her an unfair advantage
in business dealings.
Our employees should be sensitive to any relationship that creates such
a relationship—or even creates the appearance of such a
relationship. |
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Keep these rules in
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your employment period, be vigilant about potential conflicts of
interest between this company’s interests and your personal or
immediate family’s interests. |
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• Don’t
use your position with this company to obtain a personal benefit of any
kind. |
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• Avoid
any action or relationship that creates, or even creates the appearance
of, a conflict of interest. For example, having an interest in a
nonpublic company that competes or does business with our company or any
of its affiliates might create the appearance of a conflict of interest
and might prompt accusations and/or an investigation. |
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Disclosure |
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This company respects your privacy,
as well as your right to conduct your personal affairs without
interference; however, you must make prompt, complete, and continuing
disclosure of all facts relating to any factual or potential conflict of
interest. |
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Investigations |
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Inquiries or investigations may be
undertaken at this company’s direction by its attorneys,
investigators, internal auditors, or independent public
accountants. Employees should regard this vigilance as the
company’s commitment not only to fair competition but also to the
protection of its employees. Your cooperation is needed for your
protection as well as that of this company, and it is a condition of
your employment.
This excerpt is a composite of information from several business
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Based on the information in this excerpt, what would be the company's
policy about accepting gifts or entertainment from people representing
your competitors?
Accepting gifts or entertainment from people representing competitors
would be considered
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Based on the information in this excerpt, when is it
permissible to give money that might be considered a bribe or a tip to a
government official in order to facilitate business? |
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What is the meaning of the phrase “or even creates
the appearance of” (lines 14–15)? |
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What is an example of a conflict of interest? |
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While this excerpt is discussing a very serious topic, it tries to
maintain a feeling of sincere interest in the employee.
Which of the statements below most clearly reflects that feeling?
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How is this excerpt organized? |
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Earlier in this document, the company describes how employees of this
company are to behave toward each other. The document includes
a statement about complete and enforced intolerance for discrimination
in any form.
Based on this information and the information in this excerpt, why
might a potential employee want to read all this company’s rules
and regulations for employee behavior carefully?
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If you were running this company and you wanted to hire
someone to enforce these rules, what primary characteristic would you
want in this potential employee? |
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This page last updated on 08/01/2011
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