Jhumpa Lahiri’s story collection Interpreter of Maladies features multiple stories about romantic relationships. In “This Blessed House,” newlyweds argue over whether to replace items left by the previous owners of their new home. ______blank in “A Temporary Matter,” a husband and wife attempt to rekindle their relationship during a four-night blackout.

Okot p’Bitek’s poem Song of Lawino (1966) explores postcolonial Ugandan life through the eyes of a woman living in a rural village. With its vibrant imagery, bitingly satiric tone, and dexterous use of traditional Acholi song and phraseology, the poem inspired a generation of East African writers. ______blank those who adopted its style are often referred to as Okot School poets.  

While researching a topic, a student has taken the following notes:

• Jordan Bennett is a Mi’Kmaq visual artist.
• The Mi’Kmaq are a First Nations people in North America.
• Bennett’s paintings pay homage to traditional Mi’Kmaq craftsmanship and have been displayed in over 75 exhibitions.
• His 2017 exhibition Wije’wi was held at the Grenfell Art Gallery.
• His 2018 exhibition Ketu’elmita’jik was held at the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia.

Before California’s 1911 election to approve a proposition granting women the right to vote, activists across the state sold tea to promote the cause of suffrage. In San Francisco, the Woman’s Suffrage Party sold Equality Tea at local fairs. ______blank in Los Angeles, activist Nancy Tuttle Craig, who ran one of California’s largest grocery store firms, distributed Votes for Women Tea.

Geoscientists have long considered Hawaii’s Mauna Loa volcano to be Earth’s largest shield volcano by volume, measuring approximately 74,000 cubic kilometers. ______blank according to a 2020 study by local geoscientist Michael Garcia, Hawaii’s Pūhāhonu shield volcano is significantly larger, boasting a volume of about 148,000 cubic kilometers.

In 1968, US Congressman John Conyers introduced a bill to establish a national holiday in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. The bill didn’t make it to a vote, but Conyers was determined. He teamed up with Shirley Chisholm, the first Black woman to be elected to Congress, and they resubmitted the bill every session for the next fifteen years. ______blank in 1983, the bill passed.

It has long been thought that humans first crossed a land bridge into the Americas approximately 13,000 years ago. ______blank based on radiocarbon dating of samples uncovered in Mexico, a research team recently suggested that humans may have arrived more than 30,000 years ago—much earlier than previously thought.

While researching a topic, a student has taken the following notes:

• Muckrakers were journalists who sought to expose corruption in US institutions during the Progressive Era (1897–1920).
• Ida Tarbell was a muckraker who investigated the Standard Oil Company.
• She interviewed Standard Oil Company executives, oil industry workers, and public officials.
• She examined thousands of pages of the company’s internal communications, including letters and financial records.
• Her book The History of the Standard Oil Company (1904) exposed the company’s unfair business practices.

While researching a topic, a student has taken the following notes:

• Species belonging to the Orchidaceae (orchid) family can be found in both tropical and temperate environments.
• Orchidaceae species diversity has not been well studied in temperate forests, such as those in Oaxaca, Mexico.
• Arelee Estefanía Muñoz-Hernández led a study to determine how many different Orchidaceae species are present in the forests of Oaxaca.
• Muñoz-Hernández and her team collected orchids each month for a year at a site in Oaxaca.
• Seventy-four Orchidaceae species were present at the site.

As a young historian in the 1950s, Alixa Naff began interviewing fellow Arab American immigrants about their experiences straddling two cultures. Over the next few decades, Naff conducted more than 450 such interviews, also known as oral histories. ______blank she collected photographs and other artifacts that represented her subjects’ experiences.

The Babylonian king Hammurabi achieved much during his forty-year reign. He conquered all of Mesopotamia and built Babylon into one of the most powerful cities of the ancient world. Today, ______blank he is mainly remembered for a code of laws inscribed on a seven-foot-tall block of stone: the Code of Hammurabi.

While researching a topic, a student has taken the following notes:

• Cities tend to have a wide range of flowering vegetation in parks, yards, and gardens.
• This vegetation provides a varied diet for honeybees, strengthening bees’ immune systems.
• On average, 62.5 percent of bees in an urban area will survive a harsh winter.
• Rural areas are often dominated by monoculture crops such as corn or wheat.
• On average, only 40 percent of honeybees in a rural area will survive a harsh winter.

While researching a topic, a student has taken the following notes:

• Platinum is a rare and expensive metal.
• It is used as a catalyst for chemical reactions.
• Platinum catalysts typically require a large amount of platinum to be effective.
• Researcher Jianbo Tang and his colleagues created a platinum catalyst that combines platinum with liquid gallium.
• Their catalyst was highly effective and required only trace amounts of platinum (0.0001% of the atoms in the mixture).

Before the 1847 introduction of the US postage stamp, the cost of postage was usually paid by the recipient of a letter rather than the sender, and recipients were not always able or willing to pay promptly. ______blank collecting this fee could be slow and arduous, and heaps of unpaid-for, undeliverable mail piled up in post offices.