Question

___ determines Arthur's success at pulling the sword, Excalibur, from its stone.

A.
Antecedent

B.
Precept

C.
Predestination

D.
Premonition

Answer 1

2.

Aisha, wife of the Prophet Mohammed, was in the ___ of soldiers at the Battle of the Camel in A.D. 656.

A.
avant-garde

B.
posterity

C.
primate

D.
vanguard

Answer 2

3.

Before the Civil War, the cotton plantations of the ___ South depended on British textile companies for their markets.

A.
antebellum

B.
anterior

C.
avant-garde

D.
primordial

Answer 3

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4.

In 1959, Mary Leakey discovered the bones of Zinj, a ___ ancestor of modern humans.

A.
premier

B.
preposterous

C.
pretentious

D.
primeval