101. Biographer Janet Malcolm maintains that biography is a spurious art, for the orderly narrative it creates is ________ ; the "facts" aren’t facts at all, but literary ________ .

    (A) illusory ... inventions

    (B) genuine ... commonplaces

    (C) informative ... allusions

    (D) brilliant ... triumphs

    (E) sincere ... criticisms

 102. Biography is a literary genre whose primary ________ is an ability to ________ imaginatively the inner life of a subject on the basis of all the knowable external evidence.

    (A) requisite ... reconstruct

    (B) consequence ... disregard

    (C) peculiarity ... envision

    (D) weapon ... undermine

    (E) claim ... counteract

 103. Biologists categorize many of the world’s environments as deserts: regions where the ________ availability of some key factor, such as water, sunlight, or an essential nutrient, places sharp constraints on the existence of living things.

    (A) ready

    (B) gradual

    (C) limited

    (D) nearby

    (E) unprecedented

 104. Black religion was in part a protest movement—a protest against a system and a society that was ________ designed to ________ the dignity of a segment of God’s creation.

    (A) unintentionally ... reflect

    (B) explicitly ... foster

    (C) inevitably ... assess

    (D) deliberately ... demean

    (E) provocatively ... enhance

 105. Boccherini was a good and interesting composer whose reputation has no sufficiently ________ the decline into which it fell after his death.

    (A) contributed to

    (B) benefited from

    (C) recovered from

    (D) conflicted with

    (E) derived from

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