All Non-Essential and Essential Clauses

According to one scholar, the Singer sewing machine emerged from a collaboration between a so-called mechanical _____ and a lawyer, Edward Clark. Singer may or may not have been a genius with machines, but he was remarkably adept at displaying his name: it appeared multiple times on the machines he and Clark produced.

• genius Isaac Merritt Singer,

• genius Isaac Merritt Singer

• genius, Isaac Merritt Singer,

• genius Isaac Merritt Singer,

In the popular imagination, ants are often depicted as brave soldiers or dutiful factory workers. According to _____ however, this portrayal is a human fiction.

• entomologist Deborah Gordon,

• entomologist, Deborah Gordon

• entomologist Deborah Gordon

• entomologist, Deborah Gordon,

Lisa See has always been intrigued by stories that have been lost, forgotten, or deliberately covered up. See, author of the _____ traveled to a remote area of China to research the book. While there, she was able to investigate a secret type of writing that women had kept hidden for over a thousand years.

• best-selling novel, Snow Flower and the Secret Fan,

• best-selling novel Snow Flower and the Secret Fan

• best-selling novel, Snow Flower and the Secret Fan

• best-selling novel Snow Flower and the Secret Fan,

Alfred Mosher Butts, the American ____ intended it to be a variation on the existing word game Lexiko—- the two games had the same set of letter tiles and point values. Butts created a few sets himself, but the first manufacturers who inspected them did not think that the game was likely to become very popular.

• architect, who created ScrabbleTM,

• architect, who created ScrabbleTM

• architect who created ScrabbleTM

• architect who created ScrabbleTM,

Grant Wood never achieved the kind of critical acclaim earned by other twentieth century artists in the United States. However, his best-known ____ is one of the few images to reach the status of universally recognized cultural icon.

• painting, (the endlessly satirized American Gothic),

• painting, (the endlessly satirized American Gothic)

• painting, (the endlessly satirized American Gothic),

• painting (the endlessly satirized American Gothic)

The discovery of x-rays occurred entirely by chance. In November 1895, the German ___ accidentally discovered an image created by rays emanating from a vacuum tube. Further investigation showed that the rays were capable of passing through many kinds of matter.

• physicist, Wilhelm Roentgen,

• physicist Wilhelm Roentgen

• physicist, Wilhelm Roentgen

• physicist Wilhelm Roentgen,

Pterosaurs, the first flying ___ ended in over- elongated fingers. These reptiles filled the skies between 66 and 220 million years ago, their bodies ranging in size from less than a foot to the length of a small airplane.

• vertebrates, had wings made of a membrane, that

• vertebrates, had wings made of a membrane that

• vertebrates had wings made of a membrane that,

• vertebrates—had wings made of a membrane that,

First recorded in 1835, polio became the most serious public health problem of the mid-twentieth century, and scientists searched frantically for a cure. During the 1940s, President Franklin D. Roosevelt was the world's most recognized polio victim, having founded the ____ to spur the developlment of new treatments.

• organization, March of Dimes

• organization March of Dimes

• Organization, March of Dimes,

• Organization March of Dimes,

Wallace Fowlie, one of Stendhal's most sympathetic critics, claimed that the writer's genius was due in part to the way he blurred the line between his own interior life and those of his characters. Stendhal was, ___ "literally inhabited by his creations," discovering himself as he discovered them.

• Fowlie argues,

• Fowlie argues

• Fowlie argues-

• Fowlie, argues

The first recorded mention of the Agojie—the all-female military regiment in the kingdom of Dahomey—dates to 1729. However, it is possible that the unit was formed even earlier, toward the beginning of Dahomey's ___ was created.

• existence, when a troupe consisting of women, who were already experienced elephant-hunters,

• existence when a troupe consisting of women, who were already experienced elephant-hunters,

• existence, when a troupe consisting of women who were already experienced elephant-hunters

• existence when a troupe consisting of women who were already experienced elephant-hunters,