Module I: Reading and Writing

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Louisa May Alcott contributed A Modern Mephistopheles to the No Name Series, a collection of novels published anonymously between 1876 and 1887. The series challenged readers to guess authors’ identities, reflecting the era’s fascination for literary mystery. This ______approach to publishing allowed Alcott to experiment beyond her established style.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?

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preliminary
clandestine
unequivocal
inexplicable
Though copies of The Adventures of Indiana Jones in Wenceslas Square in Prague on January 16, 1989—an underground computer game that was created anonymously in 1989 as an act of political protest against the authoritarian regime of what was then Czechoslovakia—were originally distributed ______, the game is now readily available online for anyone to play.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?

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surreptitiously
disingenuously
succinctly
dispassionately
In their study of caterpillars in fragmented forests (formerly contiguous forests that have been broken into isolated patches by roads or other interruptions), Riley M. Anderson et al. stress that although fragmentation inevitably ______ alterations to local ecological processes, the changes will likely have a greater impact on Nola triguetrana, a specialist feeding on a limited number of plant species, than on a species like Himella intractata that feeds on several.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?
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engenders
preempts
subsumes
attenuates
Yuen Yuen Ang et al. argue that merely tallying the number of patents filed per year ______ the degree of innovation occurring: truly novel patents—those, like a 2011 patent for an automated navigation system for planes, that combine previously unaffiliated technological domains—are vastly outnumbered by nonnovel patents (e.g., a 2008 patent for a method of making soup).
Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?

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belies
portends
thwarts
maligns
Magical realism, a style that weaves fantasy into realistic narratives, coalesced in Latin America in the 1960s. It is associated with Gabriel García Márquez, whose One Hundred Years of Solitude is a key text. The style was embraced by Mexican American writers, such as Ana Castillo, whose So Far from God draws on Mexican folktales as a source of fantasy. Yet The Mixquiahuala Letters, also by Castillo, features no fantastical plot events. And despite his popular reputation, García Márquez himself wrote several works of strict realism, including Chronicle of a Death Foretold.
Which choice best states the function of the underlined sentence?

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To identify an unrecognized point of similarity between Chronicle of a Death Foretold and So Far from God
To suggest that Mexican American authors who were influenced by García Márquez may have, in turn, influenced him
To refute the possible impression that García Márquez conformed to magical realism in all of his works
To challenge the common assumption that One Hundred Years of Solitude is superior to realist works by García Márquez
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