多选题 Directions: For the following questions, select the two answer choices that, when used to complete the sentence, fit the meaning of the sentence as a whole and produce completed sentences that are alike in meaning.

多选题Though the work of celebrated artist Eugene Delacroix ______ accolades from both art critics and the public, he remain ______, someone shrouded in mystery.

多选题To avoid annihilation by parasites, some caterpillars are able to ______ periods of active growth by prematurely entering a dormant state, which is characterized by the ______ of feeding. A. mediate B. foster C. curtail D. continuation E. suspension F. stimulation

多选题The editorial charged that some contemporary music ______ fundamental social values by glamorizing what is essentially an outlaw lifestyle.

多选题Although the women in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries who undertook botanical illustration were primarily ______, their contributions as naturalists and catalogers actually helped ______ the field as an academic discipline.

多选题The bill incited such vigorous debate and caused such partisanship that it was dubbed the most ______ in history.

多选题Even when offstage, the acting troupe exhibited the ______ behavior usually associated with histrionic temperaments.

多选题With his unlaundered shirt and his wrinkled suit, Ted appeared ______.

多选题Aerospace engineer Dr. Aprille Ericsson-Jackson does not ______ her responsibilities as a role model; instead, she ______ the opportunity to encourage women and minorities to pursue careers in math and science.

多选题The city council"s unanimous rejection of a proposal so critical to the mayor"s agenda was a shocking ______ for the mayor, because she had fully expected the council"s ______.

多选题Because drummer Tony Williams paved the way for late jazz-fusion musicians, he is considered a ______ of that style.

多选题The writer came to be labeled ______ because she isolated herself in her apartment, shunning outside contact.

多选题NASA engineer Gloria Yamauchi uses ______ approach to research, in that it draws on physics, aerodynamics, mathematics, and other fields.

多选题In the zany comedy series I Love Lucy , Lucille Ball"s exaggerated, clumsy antics displayed the comedian"s famous talent for ______.

多选题Because rap and hip-hop offer such ______ commentary on contemporary issues, they are often said to be sharp-edged musical genres.

多选题After winning the award, Phillip adopted a haughty pose, treating even his best friends in a ______ manner.

多选题 Directions: The next questions are based on the content of the following passage. Read the passage and then determine the best answer choice for each question. Base your choice on what this passage states directly or implies, not on any information you may have gained elsewhere. For each of Questions 7-10, select one answer choice unless otherwise instructed. Questions 7-10 are based on the following passage. With Meredith's The Egoist we enter into a critical problem that we have not yet before faced in these studies. That is the problemLine offered by a writer of recognizably impressive (5) stature, whose work is informed by a muscu- lar intelligence, whose language has splendor, whose "view of life" wins our respect, and yet for whom we are at best able to feel only a passive appreciation which amounts, prac- (10) tically, to indifference. We should be unjust to Meredith and to criticism if we should, giving in to the inertia of indifference, sim- ply avoid dealing with him and thus avoid the problem along with him. He does not (15) "speak to us," we might say; his meaning is not a "meaning for us"; he "leaves us cold." But do not the challenge and the excitement of the critical problem as such lie in that ambivalence of attitude which allows us to (20) recognize the intelligence and even the splendor of Meredith's work, while, at the same time, we experience a lack of sympathy, a failure of any enthusiasm of response?

多选题John Updike"s literary ______ was ______: it included novels, short stories, essays, poetry, criticism, children"s books, and more.

多选题The professor"s ______ lecture on American history served more to confuse the students than to clarify the difficult material.

多选题Myra laughed exuberantly and embraced her friends repeatedly, so ______ was she about having been selected.