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American writer Edwidge Danticat, who emigrated from Haiti in 1981, has won acclaim for her powerful short stories, novels, and her lyrical yet unflinching depictions of her native country's turbulent history. Writer Robert Antoni has compared Danticat to Nobel Prize-winning novelist Toni Morrison, praising her essays.<br/><br/>Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?

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Her book _Saanil Dahataal/The Women Are Singing_--a combination of fiction, memoir, poetry, and ________--serves as a testament to her versatility as a writer.<br/><br/>Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?

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American poet Emily Dickinson wrote many of her poems on scraps of paper, but she also took steps to collect these works. From 1858 to around 1864, for example, she copied more than 800 of ________ into forty homemade booklets (known as fascicles).<br/><br/>Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?

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Hegra is an archaeological site in present-day Saudi Arabia and was the second largest city of the Nabataean Kingdom (fourth century BCE to first century CE). Archaeologist Laila Nehme recently traveled to Hegra to study its ancient ________ into the rocky outcrops of a vast desert, these burial chambers seem to blend seamlessly with nature.<br/><br/>Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?

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The Progressive Era in the United States witnessed the rise of numerous Black women's clubs, local organizations that advocated for racial and gender equality. Among the clubs' leaders ________ Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin, founder of the Women's Era Club of Boston.<br/><br/>Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?

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In 2000, Nora de Hoyos Comstock, herself an owner of a successful consulting firm, sought to increase Latina representation in corporate ________ founded Las Comadres para las Americas, an international community that for over two decades has served as a resource and information network for Latina business professionals.<br/><br/>Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?

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Author Madeline L'Engle, to create a suspenseful tone that draws the reader in, begins her novel _A Wrinkle in Time_ with descriptions of "wraithlike shadows" and "the frenzied hashing of the wind," ________.<br/><br/>Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?

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Both Sona Charapotra, an Indian American, and Dhonielle Clayton, an African American, grew up frustrated by the lack of diverse characters in books for young people. In 2011, these two writers joined forces to found CAKE Literary, a ________ specializes in the creation and promotion of stories told from diverse perspectives for children and young adults.<br/><br/>Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?

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characters. <br/><br/>your answer: Slam poet Elizabeth Acevedo's debut novel _The Poet X_, winner of the 2018 National Book Award for Young People's Literature, is composed of ________ characters.<br/><br/>Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?

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A conceptual artist and designer embraced by both the art world and the fashion world - Mary Ping was chosen to curate the exhibition _Front Row: Chinese American Designers_ for the Museum of Chinese in America.<br/><br/>Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?

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In the late 1960s, inspired in part by the sight of laundry hanging on a clothesline, African American abstract painter Sam Gilliam began to create his iconic "Drape" paintings. He applied bold, saturated hues to large canvases and ________ them from ceilings or walls, causing the drooping fabric to cascade in dramatic loops and curves.<br/><br/>Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?

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In 1943, in the midst of World War II, mathematics professor Grace Hopper was recruited by the US military to help the war effort by solving complex equations. Hopper's subsequent career would involve more than just as a pioneering computer programmer though: Hopper would help usher in the digital age.<br/><br/>Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?

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A recent study ________ why: making sugar is energy-intensive, and it is more advantageous for plants to make a large amount of low-sugar nectar than a small amount of high-sugar nectar.<br/><br/>Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?

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Richard Spikes was a prolific African American inventor known for his contributions to automotive engineering. Between 1907 and 1946, he patented many inventions, ________ an automobile turn signal, a safety brake, and--most famously--the first automatic gearshift.<br/><br/>Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?

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Nigerian author Buchi Emecheta's celebrated literary oeuvre includes _The Joys of Motherhood_, a novel about the changing roles of women in 1950s ________ a television play about the private struggles of a newlywed couple in Nigeria; and _Head Above Water_, her autobiography.<br/><br/>Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?

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On songs like "Ultriumavunga," Lucassie Koperqualuk's guitar riffs effortlessly ________ Charlie Adams's delightfully catchy vocal melodies.<br/><br/>Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?

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Official measurements of the Mississippi River's length vary: according to the US Geologic Survey, the river is 2,300 miles long, whereas the Environmental Protection Agency records its length as 2,320 miles. This disparity can be explained in part by the fact that rivers such as the Mississippi expand and contract as ________ sediment.<br/><br/>Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?

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In 2016, engineer Vanessa Galvez oversaw the installation of 164 bioswales, vegetated channels designed to absorb and divert stormwater, along the streets of Queens, New York. By reducing the runoff flowing into city sewers, ________<br/><br/>Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?

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The poem _Beowulf_ begins with the word "hwset," which is an Old English exclamation as "hark!" or "listen!" in some versions, the word was playfully rendered as "brol" by Maria Dahvana Headley in her 2020 translation of the poem.<br/><br/>Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?

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The human brain is primed to recognize faces--so much so that, due to a perceptual tendency called pareidolia, ________ will even find faces in clouds, wooden doors, pieces of fru________, and other faceless inanimate objects. Researcher Susan Magsamen has focused her work on better understanding this everyday phenomenon.<br/><br/>Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?

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In Death Valley National Park's Racetrack Playa, a flat, dry lakebed, are 162 rocks--some weighing less than a pound but others almost 700 pounds--that move periodically from place to place, seemingly of their own volition. The ________ Racetrack-like trails in the mysterious migration.<br/><br/>Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?

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Earth is not a perfect sphere. Due to the gravitational pull, Earth bulges out on the sides closest to and farthest from the Moon. This distorting pull is known as a tidal force, and it is responsible for the changes in water levels that are called high and low tides caused by the ________.<br/><br/>Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?

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the character of Linda ________ a form of synesthesia whereby the words she hears evoke tastes.<br/><br/>Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?

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The Tantaquidgeon Museum in Uncasville, Connecticut, was founded in 1931 with the goal of showcasing the culture and history of the Mohegan ________ today, nearly a century later, it is the oldest Native-owned and -operated museum in the country.<br/><br/>Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?

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Robin Wall Kimmerer of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation is a hypologist, a plant scientist who specializes in mosses. To Kimmerer, mosses are Earth's most adaptable plants: they can clone ________ enter a dormant state in times of drought, and grow in areas that don't have soil.<br/><br/>Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?

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