GAT General Summary Completion Sample Questions:

Polls can be used in different ways. Candidates for public office use them to (1)__________ their chances of winning and help them decide whether to run. Once this decision is made, polls provide information that helps candidates (2)__________ limited campaign resources to those groups in the population that support them or might be (3)__________ to do so. Candidates also use polls to help determine which issues they need to (4)__________ and which they should ignore. Candidates will sometimes commission private polls and leak favorable results to the press to try to (5)__________ opinion.

1. access
2. excess
3. assess
4. information
5. know


1. direct
2. use
3. think
4. advance
5. get


1. made
2. obtained
3. moved
4. rectified
5. persuaded


1. embezzled
2. emphasize
3. eminent
4. egoist
5. None of these


1. patronage
2. extrapolate
3. alienate
4. manipulate
5. enervate

ANSWERS

1. C
2. A
3. E
4. B
5. D