If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.” Test # 1 Choose the correct answer

27. It is evident from the passage that the author . . . .

A) holds Lincoln responsible for the US Civil War

B) has a very high opinion of Abraham Lincoln

C) considers Lincoln to be uneducated and odd

D) feels Lincoln would have benefited from school
Read the text and answer the questions

according to it.
Early civilizations in Asia achieved high levels of development within the traditional agricultural economies on which they depended. There were brilliant achievements in art, architecture, language and literature, as well as early science and technology. Many of the devices that Europeans later came to depend on originated in Asia, such as gunpowder, paper, the wheel and the compass. While European civilization was slow developing during the Middle Ages, Asia's great civilizations flowered in unmatched brilliance and prosperity. When Marco Polo travelled to China in the 13th century, he marveled at the magnificence of China's great civilization, already 3,000 years old. Less famous Europeans were to echo him later.

28. It may be understood from the passage that early civilizations in Asia . . . .

A) imported technology from the Western world

B) wrote the only books in the world at the time

C) were based on the raising of plants and animals

D) produced technology comparable to today's