Module I: Reading and Writing

Artist Marilyn Dingle’s intricate, coiled baskets are ______ sweetgrass and palmetto palm. Following a Gullah technique that originated in West Africa, Dingle skillfully winds a thin palm frond around a bunch of sweetgrass with the help of a “sewing bone” to create the basket’s signature look that no factory can reproduce.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?

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A indicated by

B handmade from

C represented by

D collected with

Some researchers believe that the genes that enable groundhogs and certain other mammals to hibernate through the winter by slowing their breathing and heart rates and lowering their body temperature may be ______ in humans: present yet having essentially no effect on our bodily processes.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?

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A decisive

B lacking

C variable

D dormant

Diego Velázquez was the leading artist in the court of King Philip IV of Spain during the seventeenth century, but his influence was hardly ______ Spain: realist and impressionist painters around the world employed his techniques and echoed elements of his style.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?

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A derived from

B recognized in

C confined to

D repressed by

Although science fiction was dominated mostly by white male authors when Octavia Butler, a Black woman, began writing, she did not view the genre as ______: Butler broke into the field with the publication of several short stories and her 1976 novel Patternmaster, and she later became the first science fiction writer to win a prestigious MacArthur Fellowship.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?

Mark for Review

A legitimate

B impenetrable

C compelling

D indecipherable

The following text is adapted from Nathaniel Hawthorne’s 1844 short story “Drowne’s Wooden Image.” Drowne, a young man, is carving a wooden figure to decorate the front of a ship.
Day by day, the work assumed greater precision, and settled its irregular and misty outline into distinct grace and beauty. The general design was now obvious to the common eye.
As used in the text, what does the word “assumed” most nearly mean?

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A Acquired

B Acknowledged

C Imitated

D Speculated

Module I: Reading and Writing

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