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  1. 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
  2. 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
  3. 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
  4. 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
  5. 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
  6. 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
  7. 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
  8. 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
  9. 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
  10. 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
  11. 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
  12. 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
  13. 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
  14. 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
  15. 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
  16. 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
  17. 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
  18. 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
  19. 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
  20. 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
  21. 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
  22. 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
  23. 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
  24. 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
  25. 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
  26. 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
  27. 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
  28. 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