MAT Study Guide 2026

A norm is expected behavior, while deviance is its violation.

The Potsdam Agreement concluded World War II among the Allied powers, just as the Treaty of Versailles formally ended World War I.

The relationship between HABIT and CUSTOMARY is that a HABIT is an action or behavior that is CUSTOMARY (usual or habitual). Similarly, a REFLEX is an action that is INVOLUNTARY (done without conscious control). Both pairs link a type of action to its defining characteristic.

A shark is a fish, but a whale is a mammal despite living in water.

The Panama Canal connects North and South America, just as the Suez Canal connects Africa and Asia.

This analogy connects a monarch to their representative. Elizabeth II was a Queen, and David Lloyd Johnston served as the Governor General of Canada, acting as her representative. A Viceroy is a governor of a country or province who rules as the representative of a monarch, thus completing the 'monarch : representative' relationship.