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Unlike a judge, who must act alone, a jury discusses a case and then reaches its decision

A. legal
B. professional
C. individual
D. unexpected

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If animal parents were judged by human standards, the cuckoo would be one of nature's more

A. mettlesome
B. industrious
C. domestic
D. irresponsible

All of the following are mentioned as similarities between Leif Erikson's voyage and Biarni's voyage EXCEPT ______.

A. both visited Norway
B. both returned to Greenland
C. both visited Wineland
D. both visited Helluland

The author puts the word "egalitarian" in quotation marks (in paragraph 1) to ______.

A. emphasize his admiration for the early Americans
B. ridicule the idea of democracy
C. remind the reader of the principles of the new nation
D. underscore the fact that equality did not extend to everyone

Although slaves were treated as objects, bountiful evidence suggests that they did not view themselves similarly. There are many published autobiographies of slaves. AfricanAmerican scholars are beginning to know enough about West African culture to appreciate the existential climate in which the early captives were raised and which therefore could not be totally destroyed by the enslavement experience. This was a climate that defined individuality in collective terms. Individuals were members of a tribe, within which they had prescribed roles determined by the history of their family within the tribe. Individuals were inherently a part of the natural elements on which they depended, and they were actively related to those tribal members who once lived and to those not yet born.
The colonial plantation system which was established and into which Africans were thrust did virtually eliminate tribal affiliations. Individuals were separated from kin. Interrelationships among kin kept together were often transient because of sales. A new identification with those slaves working and living together in a given place could satisfy what was undoubtedly a natural tendency to be a member of a group. New family units became the most important attachments of individual slaves. Thus, as the system of slavery was gradually institutionalized, West African affiliation tendencies adapted to it.
This exceedingly complex dual influence is still reflected in black community life, and the double consciousness of black Americans is the major characteristic of African-American mentality. Du Bois articulated this divided consciousness as follows.
The history of the American Negro is the history of this strife--this longing to attain self-conscious manhood, to merge his double self into a better and truer self. In this merging, he wishes neither of the older selves to be best.
Several black political movements have looked upon this duality as destructively conflictual and have variously urged its reconciliation. Thus, the integrationists and the black nationalists, to be crudely general, have both been concerned with resolving the conflict, but in opposite directions.
Which of the following would be the most appropriate title for the passage?

A. The History of Black People in the United States.
B. West African Tribal Relations.
C. The Origin of Modern African-American Consciousness.
D. Slavery: A Democratic Anomaly.

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