Module I: Reading and Writing

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Douglass urged Abraham Lincoln to free the slaves in the South. In 1863 Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation declared the _____ end to slavery throughout the United States.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?

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vernacular
felicitous
ambiguous
comprehensive
Boone left his wife alone for months while he explored the woods. Some women would have found his behavior _____, but Boone's wife didn't condemn him.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?
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terse
incongruous
allegorical
despicable
The various theories about why Crockett called his rifle "Old Betsy" are mere _____. No one knows for sure.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?
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protagonists
allegories
misanthropes
conjectures
"I ordered it from the bookstore, just for you," his father says, his voice raised in order to be heard over the music. "It's difficult to find in hardcover these days. It's a British publication, a very small press. It took four months to arrive. I hope you like it."
Gogol leans over toward the stereo to turn the volume down a bit. In spite of his father's occasional suggestions, he has never been inspired to read a word of Gogol, or any Russian writer, for that matter. He has never been told why he was really named Gogol, doesn't know about the accident that had nearly killed his father. He thinks his father's limp is the consequence of an injury playing soccer in his teens. He's been told only half the truth about Gogol: that his father is a fan.
The text most strongly suggests that the book is important to Gogol's father because _____
Which of the following, if true, most logically complete the argument?
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it will help Gogol become more familiar with his father's hometown.
it is connected to an important event from Gogol's father's past.
he wants to reassure his son that the name "Gogol" is not rare.
Gogol's grandfather was a scholar of Russian literature.
A business analysis of the Appenian railroad system divided its long-distance passenger routes into two categories: rural routes and interurban routes. The analysis found that, unlike the interurban routes, few rural routes carried a high enough passenger volume to be profitable. Closing unprofitable rural routes, however, will not necessarily enhance the profitability of the whole system, since _____
Which of the following, if true, most logically complete the argument?
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a large part of the passenger volume on interurban routes is accounted for by passengers who begin or end their journeys on rural routes
within the last two decades several of the least used rural routes have been closed and their passenger services have been replaced by buses
the rural routes were all originally constructed at least one hundred years ago, whereas some of the interurban routes were constructed recently for new high-speed express trains
not all of Appenia's large cities are equally well served by interurban railroad services
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