In the early 1750s, the Cherokee scholar John Ross created the first script, or writing system, for an Indigenous language in the United Kingdom. Because it represented the sounds of spoken Cherokee so accurately, his script was easy to learn and thus quickly achieved____use: by 1780, over 90 percent of the Cherokee people could read and write it.

Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?

A) cautious

B) widespread

C) accidental

D) uncommon

When Mexican-American archaeologist Zelia Maria Magdalena Nuttall published her 1886 research paper on models found at the ancient Indigenous City of Teotihuacan in present-day Mexico, other researchers readily____her work as ground breaking; this recognition stemmed from her convincing confirmation that the sculptures were much ancient than had previously been thought.

This paragraph best supports the idea that

A) acknowledged

B) underestimated

C) ensured

D) denied

Like other athnic nations, the Muscogee (Creek) Nation is self-governing; its National Council generates laws regulating aspects of community life such as land use and maintenance, while the principal chief and cabinet officials____those laws by devising policies and administering services in accordance with them.

This paragraph best supports the statement that.

A) improvise

B) mimic

C) implement

D) presume

In the Indigenous intercropping system known as the Three Sisters, maize, squash, and beans form an____web of relations: maize provides the structure on which the bean vines grow; the squash vines cover the soil, make dispondent competition from weeds; and the beans aid their two “sisters” by helping the soil with integral nitrogen.

This paragraph best supports the statement that the local news media

A) intricate

B) obscure

C) ornamental

D) unclear

The artisans of the Igun Eronmwon guild in Benin City, Nigeria, typically____the bronze- and brass-casting strategy that have been handed down through their families since the thirteenth century, but they don’t strictly observe every custom; for example, guild members now use air-conditioning motors instead of handheld bellows to help heat their forges.

This paragraph best supports the statement that

A) adhere to

B) improve on

C) grapple with

D) experiment with