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Quiz 200

DIRECTIONS: Below, you will see 10 items. Each item contains 7 lines of text. In the middle of each line is a gap (a blank line). Which word fits in all of the gaps in each set? Use the drop-down menu to make your choice. If you choose an incorrect word, it will appear next to the drop-down list. Keep trying until you choose the right word. When you finish the quiz, you will see your score. Click START OVER to try the quiz again.
Which word/phrase fits all the gaps in each set?

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[001]   the village planted hybrid corn and more than tripled  _____ .  This proved that it was better. Three years later,
[002] yesterday on fears that El Nino would cut overseas crop  _____  and on the expectation that Egypt would buy wheat from
[003] of the Ginger  Man.  The film of the book is going into  _____  with all sorts of Hollywood brats vying for the lead;
[004]      these 'women ofthe Community' who came to see that  _____   of Little Women. During the haircut scene, I ran my
[005]    of Knightsbridge, was 41. Dodi Fayed dabbled in film  _____ , but otherwise had no known occupation. His father
[006]    they needed pitching and thought they could get more  _____  from the first base position with Darin  Erstad.
[007] which is about to gain its third incarnation as a stage  _____  in London next week. De Silva has been living with


	
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[001] iano sonatas, 20 operas and thousands of other works).  _____ , Beethoven was probably not so perfect a craftsman as
[002]   with the expected single-family homes on large lots.  _____ , a freeway-based view of spread-out Los Angeles gives
[003]   United States citizens currently denied due process?  _____ , my provision does not alter the substantive principle
[004]    population at home likes to see them do it. London,  _____ , is far more than just a national capital. Heathrow
[005]   United States citizens currently denied due process?  _____ , my provision does not alter the substantive principle
[006]     Our secondary classes are just above average size.  _____ , a survey of 11 of our economic competitors,  conducte
[007]            So I will not be continuing your allowance.  _____ , I am sure you will realize how impossible it would be


	
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[001]     cast as Seth, an angel who yearns to lead a mortal  _____  after he falls in love with a doctor (played by Meg R
[002]  office, speaking about brutalities of his neocolonial  _____ . Fadope, who grew up in Nigeria during the 1970s  and
[003]      said that one of the greatest jokes in his absurd  _____  was when in 1974 the Spanish regime of Franco, already
[004]  death: Biology blurs the beginnings and ends of human  _____  By DR JOHN HABGOOD    One of the tasks of moral
[005]      in our body is human. But what is at issue is the  _____  of 'a new human being', and that - at the very minimum
[006] prove of it, but rather that I have always doubted its  _____ . Any cultural censorship that had occurred in modern
[007]   and turned the pages to TOAD. There were no toads in  _____ .  A box. He looked in the back of the car and found on


	
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[001]  hundredth time, to refuse him, when he said we should  _____  a child? I believe that if God hasn't given us a child
[002]             She had always been the child he wanted to  _____ . He had no idea that Silas would rather die than lose
[003]      I didn't know Eppie was yours and so I refused to  _____  her.  Of course I'd accept your child into our home!
[004]  s and I, you know, have no children, and we'd like to  _____  a daughter to live with us in our beautiful home and
[005]    him and then said, Yes, I'm afraid we can't hope to  _____  her, if she doesn't want to come to us.' 
[006]       schools, and reports of the Government's plan to  _____  some kind of voucher system for  nursery schools. Both
[007]    presidential elections if local universities do not  _____  it.  Some of the men of the Kabyle mountains, especial


	
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[001]     symbol of resistance,' early as it was in the long  _____  for black civil rights, signaled the beginning of the
[002] in the months since then, as the rivalry and the power  _____  have deepened, so has the commitment of the American
[003]     cease to exist. Here everyone is mobilised for the  _____  against the terrorists.' And the villagers dutifully
[004]   beings are more good than bad. Biko had expected the  _____  in South Africa to continue for twenty years, but he
[005] ent, Jane?'  This was a terrible moment for me. In the  _____  and confusion that was going on in my heart I knew
[006] Chester, taking me in his arms and kissing me.  'Don't  _____ , Jane, like a wild restless bird!'  'Let me go, Mr Ro
[007]   extraordinary events of the Russian Revolution. They  _____  to define their roles in a constantly changing world,


	
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[001]   in a drive to reverse a quarter-century of declining  _____ , millions of workers will be asked over the next few      
[002]     he might find the Trout Brook Valley golf course's  _____  fee of $100,000 a bit steep.
[003]    democratic Europe. It encourages states aspiring to  _____  to settle border disputes and protect minority rights
[004]    not automatically translate into a desire for union  _____ . The larger problem is America's near-mythic emphasis
[005]  heterosexual -  is not in itself sin and is no bar to  _____  or ministry in the church. Thus 'homosexuals' can righ
[006]      about five years ago. Together they claim a total  _____  of 3 million. Their first platform, the Right to Carry
[007] 1993 Waco siege. From these meetings came the surge in  _____  which turned the citizens' militias into a mass movem


	
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[001]    the administration promises to deliver a tax reform  _____  next month.  Another Riordan project, the New Los Ange
[002]      that after careful review of a second acquisition  _____  from Carolina First Bancshares Inc,  it had decided
[003]    newspaper one morning and learned about the stadium  _____  near Laurel racetrack, they organized quickly.
[004] grass-roots campaign raised questions over whether the  _____  would work as advertised. The  measure, which until
[005]   girls were quite  excited by the news of Mr Collins'  _____ , and Mrs Bennet was most annoyed with Elizabeth.
[006]  paying me, but it is impossible for me to accept your  _____ .' 'Of course I understand,' said  Mr. Collins,
[007]               'that young ladies often do not accept a  _____  of marriage the first time. I am therefore not at all


	
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[001]                Professor Farber agrees that the course  _____ , though important, is only part of the draw of an MBA
[002]             four in six core areas: curriculum design,  _____  and organisation; teaching, learning and assessment;
[003] leaves their options open. 'It has sufficient academic  _____  to be  recognised by universities, but there is a lot
[004]              A court ruled that AOL was not liable for  _____  provided by someone else. In Doe v. America Online,
[005] loaded with delicious-looking food, she was completely  _____ . She went upstairs to visit Aunt Ada for a short time
[006]       Until recently, Western political leadership was  _____  to see its troops keep the opposing military forces
[007]          the scope of this simple, affectionate story.  _____  to let readers discover Chatwin for themselves, she


	
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[001]    it has produced a combination of legal analysis and  _____  references. The latter are chiefly to the life and
[002]  suspense story, yet attempts the thoughtful stance of  _____  fiction, he undertakes to flesh out the cartoon
[003]          is one of these rebel leaders with remarkable  _____  achievements. Like almost all the others, Adams has
[004]  and elegiac new novel, 'The  Farewell Symphony,' is a  _____  hybrid, a vivid and variegated book.  Part confession,
[005]      received several honours during the course of his  _____  career. He was elected President of the Welsh Academy
[006]    subject matter itself. Walter Ernest Allen, writer,  _____  journalist: born Birmingham 23 February 1911; Assistan
[007]    just the right note, marrying memoir, biography and  _____  criticism. She wisely avoids documenting Chatwin's


	
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[001]   Campbell killed himself. Now there is the mysterious  _____  of an artist. The British police are saying i
[002]     images and arrangements of objects protect against  _____ ,  reclaim the past as alive, refusing the deadness of
[003]    old people in Anningly still used to talk about the  _____   of the Francis child. They said that Sir Arthur had
[004]      He stood up, feeling miserable. But Dave's sudden  _____  from work meant he could earn six thousand dollars
[005]   never communicated with your family before now. Your  _____   caused very deep sadness to many people.'  'Perhaps I
[006]   the hanging-shed?'  He thought no more about it. The  _____  of the rope, although it was strange, was not particul
[007]  the whole of this book is really about the mysterious  _____  of Paul Pennyfeather, as he originally was, so that