13 Targeted Word Analogy Practice for the Miller Analogies Test (MAT)

451. 1/3 : 2/3 :: ______ : 60
a. 20
b. 30
c. 10
d. 120
452. sari : India ::
______ : Mexico
a. sarong
b. serape
c. kilt
d. kimono
453. femur : ______ :: fibula : calf
a. foot
b. thigh
c. phalange
d. muscle
454. mustang : ______ ::
jaguar : cat
a. dog
b. horse
c. fish
d. bird
455. wed : ______ :: teem : meet
a. engagement
b. match
c. rain
d. dew
456. Bath : England ::
______ : France
a. Lorca
b. Lourdes
c. Lucca
d. Lucerne
457. V : X :: ______ : C
a. I
b. X
c. L
d. D
458. Ankara : Turkey ::
______ : Iraq
a. Teheran
b. Baghdad
c. Istanbul
d. Jordan
459. 18th Amendment :
prohibition ::
19th Amendment : ______
a. speech
b. suffrage
c. slavery
d. arms
460. Dickinson : ______ ::
Dickens : novel
a. novella
b. poem
c. song
d. play
461. felt : ______ :: smelt : fish
a. cloth
b. nose
c. sneeze
d. scale
462. ______ : 1901 ::
Lincoln : 1865
a. Hoover
b. Taft
c. McKinley
d. Ford
463. Bunker Hill : Revolutionary
War :: ______ : Civil War
a. Concord
b. Alamo
c. Boston Massacre
d. Bull Run
464. 20 : 240 :: ______ : 180
a. 18
b. 12
c. 15
d. 6
465. El Cid : Spain ::
Alexander : ______
a. Alexandria
b. Britain
c. Germany
d. Macedonia
466. de Soto : Spain ::
Columbus : ______
a. West Indies
b. Italy
c. Portugal
d. Santa Maria
467. Iran : ______ ::
Germany : Prussia
a. Syria
b. Russia
c. Iraq
d. Persia
468. Swift : satirical ::
______ : macabre
a. Hemingway
b. Fitzgerald
c. Dos Passos
d. Poe
469. Tokyo : Edo ::
______ : Ceylon
a. China
b. Sri Lanka
c. Mt. Fuji
d. Vietnam
470. ______ : Southern ::
Hawthorne : Northern
a. Melville
b. Faulkner
c. Kerouac
d. Hemingway
471. Tuscan : Italy ::
Provençal : ______
a. Switzerland
b. Spain
c. France
d. England
472. Freud : psychoanalysis ::
______ : genetics
a. Mendel
b. Pavlov
c. Newton
d. Copernicus
473. Fuji : Japan ::
Kilimanjaro : ______
a. Africa
b. China
c. India
d. Australia
474. 1 : Washington ::
______ : Franklin
a. 5
b. 12
c. 50
d. 100
475. Van Buren : 8th ::
______ : 16th
a. Lincoln
b. Jackson
c. Adams
d. Pierce
476. ______ : Gold Coast ::
Zimbabwe : Rhodesia
a. Ghana
b. California
c. Sierra Leone
d. Senegal
477. Saluki : ______ ::
Akita : Japan
a. London
b. Egypt
c. Chile
d. Spain
478. gold : Au :: silver : ______
a. Pb
b. Ag
c. Fe
d. Sn
479. peck : quart :: ______ : pint
a. kiss
b. gallon
c. glass
d. pound
480. Dryads : tree ::
Naiads : ______
a. rock
b. fire
c. sky
d. water
481. pound : United Kingdom ::
______ : Costa Rica
a. franc
b. colón
c. peseta
d. dollar
482. Xerxes : Persia ::
Nebuchadnezzar : ______
a. Mesopotamia
b. Egypt
c. Babylon
d. Peru
483. Griffin : lion ::
Satyr : ______
a. owl
b. goat
c. wings
d. horse
484. Le Corbusier : architecture ::
Rodin : ______
a. symphony
b. sculpture
c. novel
d. automobile
485. Cyclops : 1 :: Argus : ______
a. 2
b. 5
c. 10
d. 100
486. Dalí : surrealism ::
Braque : ______
a. realism
b. pop
c. cubism
d. portraits
487. Nike : victory ::
______ : hunt
a. Ares
b. Artemis
c. Hades
d. Hermes
488. Om : ______ ::
Ganges : India
a. Spain
b. Sweden
c. Hindu
d. Russia
489. Waterloo : Napoleon ::
Appomattox : ______
a. Lincoln
b. Grant
c. Lee
d. Sherman
490. Mohs : ______ ::
Richter : earthquake
a. intensity
b. damage
c. mineral
d. wind
491. ______ : highest ::
Death Valley : lowest
a. Mt. Rainier
b. Mauna Kea
c. Lake Champlain
d. Mt. McKinley
492. Samuel Clemens : Mark
Twain :: Mary Ann
Evans : ______
a. Eudora Welty
b. George Eliot
c. George Sand
d. Emily Brontë
493. Mississippi : Gulf of Mexico ::
Nile : ______
a. Indian Ocean
b. Mediterranean Sea
c. Atlantic Ocean
d. Persian Gulf
494. Crazy Horse : ______ ::
Cochise : Apache
a. Sioux
b. Inuit
c. Navajo
d. Custer
495. M : L :: C : ______
a. V
b. X
c. M
d. VI
496. 2nd : ordinal ::
______ : cardinal
a. fraction
b. 3rd
c. 2
d. 1st
497. Neptune : Poseidon ::
Jupiter : ______
a. Nike
b. Mars
c. Zeus
d. Hera
498. Phoenix : bird ::
Pegasus : ______
a. fish
b. horse
c. goat
d. snake
499. Des Moines : Iowa ::
______ : Texas
a. Dallas
b. Fort Worth
c. Austin
d. Cedar Rapids
500. Hawaii : 1959 ::
______ : 1912
a. New York
b. South Carolina
c. Arizona
d. Maine
501. Sophocles : B.C. ::
______ : A.D.
a. Euripedes
b. Pindar
c. Dante
d. Virgil
Answers
451. b. 30 is half of 60, and 1/3 is half of 2/3.
452. b. A sari is traditional clothing worn in India, and a serape is
traditional clothing worn in Mexico.
453. b. The femur is located in the thigh, and the fibula is located in
the calf.
454. b. A mustang is a type of horse, and a jaguar is a type of cat.
455. d. Wed is a palindrome for dew, and teem is a palindrome for
meet.
456. b. Restorative waters are found in Bath, England, as well as in
Lourdes, France.
457. c. In Roman numerals, V (5) is half of X (10), and L (50) is half of
C (100).
458. b. Ankara is the capital of Turkey, and Baghdad is the capital of
Iraq.
459. b. The 18th Amendment dealt with prohibition, and the 19th
dealt with suffrage.
460. b. Emily Dickinson was known as a poet, and Charles Dickens
was a novelist.
461. a. Felt is a type of cloth, and smelt is a type of fish.
462. c. President McKinley was assassinated in 1901, and President
Lincoln was assassinated in 1865.
463. d. Bunker Hill was a battle site in the Revolutionary War, and Bull
Run was a battle site in the Civil War.
464. c. 20 times 12 is 240, and 15 times 12 is 180.
465. d. El Cid was a military leader from Spain, and Alexander was a
military leader of Macedonia.
466. b. de Soto was a Spanish navigator, and Columbus was an Italian
navigator.
467. d. Iran was formerly called Persia, and Germany was formerly
called Prussia.
468. d. Jonathan Swift was known as a satirical writer, and Edgar Allan
Poe was known for his macabre writing.
469. b. Tokyo was formerly known as Edo, and Sri Lanka was formerly
known as Ceylon.
470. b. William Faulkner is known as a Southern writer, and
Nathaniel Hawthorne is known as a Northern writer.
471. c. Tuscan relates to a region of Italy, and Provençal relates to a
region of France.
472. a. Freud is considered the father of psychoanalysis, and Mendel is
considered the father of genetics.
473. a. Fuji is the highest mountain in Japan, and Kilimanjaro is the
highest mountain in Tanzania.
474. d. George Washington’s portrait is on the one-dollar bill, and
Benjamin Franklin’s is on the 100.
475. a. Martin Van Buren was the 8th president, and Abraham
Lincoln was the 16th.
476. a. Ghana was formerly called the Gold Coast, and Zimbabwe was
formerly called Rhodesia.
477. b. The Saluki is a breed of dog from Egypt, and the Akita is a
breed of dog from Japan.
478. b. On the periodic table of elements, the symbol for gold is Au,
and the symbol for silver is Ag.
479. b. A peck is a unit of measure equal to 8 quarts, and a gallon is a
unit of measurement equal to 8 pints.
480. d. The Dryads were mythical tree nymphs, and the Naiads were
mythical water nymphs.
481. b. The pound is the unit of currency of the United Kingdom, and
the colón is the unit of currency in Costa Rica.
482. c. Xerxes was the ancient king of Persia, and Nebuchadnezzar was
the ancient king of Babylon.
483. b. A Griffin is a mythical creature with the body of a lion, and a
Satyr has the body of a goat.
484. b. Le Corbusier was a French architect, and Rodin was a French
sculptor.
485. d. Cyclops was the mythical creature with one eye, and Argus was
a creature with 100 eyes.
486. c. Salvador Dalí is known as a surrealist painter, and Georges
Braque is known as a cubist.
487. b. Nike is the goddess of victory, and Artemis is the goddess of
the hunt.
488. d. The Om is a river in Russia, and the Ganges is a river in India.
489. c. Waterloo was the site of Napoleon’s defeat, and Appomattox
was the site of General Lee’s defeat.
490. c. The Mohs scale is used to measure the hardness of minerals,
and the Richter scale is used to measure the intensity of
earthquakes.
491. d. Mt. McKinley is the highest point in the United States, and
Death Valley is the lowest.
492. b. Samuel Clemens wrote under the name Mark Twain, and
Mary Ann Evans wrote under the name George Eliot.
493. b. The Mississippi River flows into the Gulf of Mexico, and the
Nile River flows into the Mediterranean Sea.
494. a. Crazy Horse was the leader of the Sioux, and Cochise was the
leader of the Apache.
495. a. M (1000) divided by L (50) is 20, as is C (100) divided by V (5).
496. c. 2nd is an example of an ordinal number, and 2 is an example of
a cardinal number.
497. c. Neptune is the Roman name of the Greek god Poseidon, and
Jupiter is the Roman name of the Greek god Zeus.
498. b. Phoenix is a mythical bird, and Pegasus is a mythical horse.
499. c. Des Moines is the capital of Iowa, and Austin is the capital of
Texas.
500. c. Hawaii became a state in 1959, and Arizona became a state in
1912.
501. c. Sophocles was born in B.C., and Dante was born and lived
A.D.