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Carbon dating of charcoal gathered from a Nok iron smelter at Intime. Nigeria, suggests that iron technology was established there by 410 B.C. This may not be the oldest smelter in sub-Saharan Africa, however.
Archaeologists have located evidence of iron-smelting in the Termite Hills of Niger from as early as 1400 B.C.. but skeptics say the wood used for that dating could have already been centuries old when burned as fuel-a problem that dogs carbon dating, especially in arid places like Niger, where wood desiccates and lasts longer. Of course, the same problem could distort dates for the Intime furnace as well, but here there is an important piece of corroborating evidence: Nok pottery found inside the furnace alongside the charcoal.
The author implies which of the following about the "Nok pottery found inside the furnace"?

• A. It was probably imported to Intini from a less arid climate.
• B. It provides independent support for the results of the carbon dating of the charcoal.
• C. It indicates that the furnace was used primarily for purposes other than smelting.
• D. It predates the pottery found in the Termit Mills of Niger.
• E. It contains traces of iron smelted in the same furnace.

• A. Quantity A is greater.
• B. Quantity B is greater.
• C. The relationship cannot be determined from the information given.
• D. The two quantities are equal.

There are far too many (i)________in the report, such as incorrect data (albeit on (ii)________points).
inconsistency between the text and related tables, and discrepancies between the citations and the references.

• A. little errors
• B. stylistic infelicities
• C. numerous
• D. perplexing
• E. minor
• F. unsupported generalizations

In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, during the period of the American Revolution and the early republic, political poems appeared regularly in newspapers and pamphlets. commenting on the issues and controversies engaging the new nation. Given the sheer number of poems that engaged explicitly with politics, one might wonder why the form has remained largely ignored by scholars of early American literature even as many other once obscure forms-sentimental novels, diaries, travelogues, belles letters-have enjoyed unprecedented scholarly interest in recent decades. Part of the reason may stem from frustrations involved with reading poems that are so highly topical-often requiring, even as a condition of first-level comprehension, a familiarity with names and references that, while wholly recognizable in their own time, are obscure to modem readers. Yet beyond this is the fact that American political verse from the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries has never fully shaken off the verdict, delivered by its earliest generation of scholarly readers. that it is simply unworthy of serious attention as literature. Even the term commonly used to describe it-"verse." as opposed to "poetry"- suggests an occasional or forgettable, rather than enduring, form of expression, not quite deserving the designation of poetry. Nor was such verse considered by early critics as worthy of the designation "American." as the tendency of eighteenth-century American poets to model their works on those of British precursors suggested an unforgivable failure, as one critic described it. to declare their "literary independence" from Britain.
Though_________in his musical expression, the American jazz bassist and composer Charles Mingus eventually developed a personal voice that proved to be much more than a simple mixture of jazz styles.

• A. uncompromising
• B. virtuosic
• C. idiosyncratic
• D. relentless
• E. eclectic
• F. wide-ranging