Module I: Reading and Writing

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The Iroquois, who lived in the northeast of North America, developed a ______ system of government among the six nations that made up the Iroquois Confederacy. Each nation played a role in the governance of the region based on the Great Law of Peace, the oral constitution of the confederacy, which some scholars believe influenced the creation of the American constitution.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?

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complex
courbous
accidental
unusual
The 1978 musical The Wiz takes the classic characters from the 1900 children’s classic The Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum, and recasts the themes for an African American audience in the wake of the turbulent Civil Rights Movement. In both stories, a determined but compassionate Dorothy sets off down the yellow brick road with her familiar companions, but The Wiz also ______ many subtle social critiques.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?

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incites
inspires
encompasses
anticipates
During a 2023 study of the remains of victims of the 1918 Spanish influenza pandemic, Amanda Wissler at the University of Colorado Boulder found that many of the 50 million victims of the pandemic might have succumbed to the illness due to preexisting environmental, social, or nutritional stressors, which called into the question the ______ idea that illness most significantly affected the young and healthy.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?

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fringe
established
prime
novel
The following text is adapted from Oscar Wilde’s 1890 novel A Picture of Dorian Gray.
There is a fatality about all physical and intellectual distinction, the sort of fatality that seems to dog through history the faltering steps of kings. The ugly and the stupid have the best of it in this world. They can sit at their ease and gape at the play. If they know nothing of victory, they are at least spared the knowledge of defeat.
As used in the text, what does the word “gape” most nearly mean?

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Abscond
Widen
Stare
Encourage
The following text is from the 1915 poem “Serepta Mason” by Edgar Lee Masters, from a book of poems that describes the lives of the townspeople in the fictional town Spoon River.
My life’s blossom might have bloomed on all sides
Save for a bitter wind which stunted my petals
On the side of me which you in the village could see.
From the dust I lift a voice of protest:
My flowering side you never saw!
Ye living ones, ye are fools indeed
Who do not know the ways of the wind
And the unseen forces
That govern the processes of life.
Which choice best states the main purpose of the text?

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To refute the idea that the speakers life was full of hardship and pain
To lament about the many difficulties incurred by a natural disaster
To rail against the lack of care the speaker felt from the village in regard to her many hardships
To describe the misfortunes that occurred in the speaker’s garden
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