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Parallel Structure

1. Egyptian pyramids were regularly robbed despite their intricate passageways, byzantine mazes, and __________.
   1. walls which were false
   2. they had false walls
   3. false walls
   4. walls of falsity

   Answer: C

2. In the years following the American Revolution and prior to the establishment of a national government, Washington provided the fledgling country with keen economic insight, _________, and astute international judgment.
   1. a recognition of stability that was domestic
   2. to stabilize the domestic situation
   3. which was domestically stable
   4. a sense of domestic stability

   Answer: D

3. Despite the appearance of being merely pests, ants can serve a garden by eliminating other bothersome insects and ________.
   1. they can aerate the soil
   2. aerating the soil
   3. to aerate the soil
   4. that can aerate the soil

   Answer: B

4. From Wrangell Island to Anchorage, Alaskan glacial formations rival those ________ and ones located in northern Canada.
   1. found in Antarctica
   2. which are found in Antarctica
   3. finding in Antarctica
   4. they find in Antarctica

   Answer: A

5. The undergirding of cars is adversely affected ________ and excessive jostling.
   1. in extremely salty
   2. by extreme salinity
   3. which is extremely salty
   4. with salt that is extreme

   Answer: B

6. The red-headed clytus is a close relative of the banded ash borer and __________ considerable damage to the wood of dead and dying ash.
   1. doing
   2. to do
   3. its
   4. does

   Answer: D

7. The continued use of the soils of the Ozark region is no longer possible because of a number of factors, both natural and __________.
   1. those of which are artificial
   2. artificial
   3. artificially
   4. artificiality

   Answer: B

8. The common puffin is a member of the very well-defined family of auks, including _________, guillemonts, razorbills, and the extinct greak auk.
   1. those little auks
   2. the auks which are little
   3. little auks
   4. auks that are little

   Answer: C

9. Aluminum, __________, ductile metal, is the most abundant metal in the earth's crust.
   1. a silver
   2. that is a silversmith
   3. a silvery
   4. that is silver

   Answer: C

10. Comparing __________ with a melody by Rossini or a scherzo by Beethoven, brings into focus the difference between schools of music
    1. a Jensonian nocturne
    2. a nocturne which belongs to Jensen
    3. a nocturne whose Jensen
    4. a nocturne by Jensen

       Answers: D