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Reading & Writing · Craft and Structure · 130 questions · every one comes with a full explanation.
- 1Rejecting the premise that the literary magazine Ebony and Topaz (1927) should present a unified vision of Black American identity, editor Charles S. Johnson fostered his contributHard · Craft and Structure
- 2Some economic historians ______ that late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century households in the United States experienced an economy of scale when it came to food purchases—theHard · Craft and Structure
- 3Economist Marco Castillo and colleagues showed that nuisance costs—the time and effort people must spend to make donations—reduce charitable giving. Charities can mitigate this effHard · Craft and Structure
- 4Seminole/Muscogee director Sterlin Harjo ______ television's tendency to situate Native characters in the distant past: this rejection is evident in his series Reservation Dogs, whHard · Craft and Structure
- 5The following text is adapted from George Eliot's 1871–72 novel Middlemarch. [Mr. Brooke] had travelled in his younger years, and was held in this part of the country to have contHard · Craft and Structure
- 6The güiro, a musical instrument traditionally made from a dried and hollowed gourd, is thought to have originated with the Taíno people of Puerto Rico. Players use a wooden stick tHard · Craft and Structure
- 7In studying the use of external stimuli to reduce the itching sensation caused by an allergic histamine response, Louise Ward and colleagues found that while harmless applications Hard · Craft and Structure
- 8While scholars believe many Mesoamerican cities influenced each other, direct evidence of such influence is difficult to ascertain. However, recent excavations in a sector of TikalHard · Craft and Structure
- 9Whether the reign of a French monarch such as Hugh Capet or Henry I was historically consequential or relatively uneventful, its trajectory was shaped by questions of legitimacy anHard · Craft and Structure
- 10Critics have asserted that fine art and fashion rarely ______ in a world where artists create timeless works for exhibition and designers periodically produce new styles for the puHard · Craft and Structure
- 11The work of Kiowa painter T.C. Cannon derives its power in part from the tension among his ______ influences: classic European portraiture, with its realistic treatment of faces; tHard · Craft and Structure
- 12New and interesting research conducted by Suleiman A. Al-Sweedan and Moath Alhaj is inspired by their observation that though there have been many studies of the effect of high altHard · Craft and Structure
- 13Close analysis of the painting Girl with a Flute, long attributed to the seventeenth-century Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer, has revealed subtle deviations from the artist's signatHard · Craft and Structure
- 14The following text is adapted from Oscar Wilde's 1895 play The Importance of Being Earnest. CECILY: Have we got to part? ALGERNON: I am afraid so. It's a very painful parting. CHard · Craft and Structure
- 15It is by no means ______ to recognize the influence of Dutch painter Hieronymus Bosch on Ali Banisadr's paintings; indeed, Banisadr himself cites Bosch as an inspiration. However, Hard · Craft and Structure
- 16Scholarly discussions of gender in Shakespeare's comedies often celebrate the rebellion of the playwright's characters against the rigid expectations ______ by Elizabethan society.Hard · Craft and Structure
- 17Given that the conditions in binary star systems should make planetary formation nearly impossible, it's not surprising that the existence of planets in such systems has lacked ___Hard · Craft and Structure
- 18For her 2021 art installation Anthem, Wu Tsang joined forces with singer and composer Beverly Glenn-Copeland to produce a piece that critics found truly ______: they praised Tsang Hard · Craft and Structure
- 19While most animals are incapable of passing somatic mutations—genetic alterations that arise in an organism's nonreproductive cells—on to their offspring, elkhorn coral (Acropora pHard · Craft and Structure
- 20Researcher Haesung Jung led a 2020 study showing that individual acts of kindness can ______ prosocial behavior across a larger group. Jung and her team found that bystanders who wHard · Craft and Structure
- 21Some foraging models predict that the distance bees travel when foraging will decline as floral density increases, but biologists Shalene Jha and Claire Kremen showed that bees' beHard · Craft and Structure
- 22Some scientists have suggested that mammals in the Mesozoic era were not a very ______ group, but paleontologist Zhe-Xi Luo's research suggests that early mammals living in the shaHard · Craft and Structure
- 23Investigating whether shared false visual memories—specific but inaccurate and widely held recollections of images such as product logos—are caused by people's previous ______ incoHard · Craft and Structure
- 24According to a US tax policy expert, state taxes are ______ other factors when considering an interstate move. Even significant differences in state taxation have almost no effect Hard · Craft and Structure
- 25The author's claim about the relationship between Neanderthals and Homo sapiens is ______, as it fails to account for several recent archaeological discoveries. To be convincing, hHard · Craft and Structure
- 26Within baleen whale species, some individuals develop an accessory spleen—a seemingly functionless formation of splenetic tissue outside the normal spleen. Given the formation's grHard · Craft and Structure
- 27The province of Xoconochco was situated on the Pacific coast, hundreds of kilometers southeast of Tenochtitlan, the capital of the Aztec Empire. Because Xoconochco's location withiHard · Craft and Structure
- 28As an undergraduate researcher in anthropology, Jennifer C. Chen contributed to a groundbreaking study challenging the accepted view that among prehistoric peoples, female participHard · Craft and Structure