Multiple choice

Directions: The following question presents a sentence, part of which or all of which is underlined. Beneath the sentence you will find five ways of phrasing the underlined part. The first of these repeats the original; the other four are different. If you think the original is best, choose the first answer; otherwise choose one of the others.

Among the era's triumphs were the Civil Rights Act of 1964, barring segregation in public places; the 24th Amendment to the Constitution, ratified in 1964, prohibiting the poll tax; and the 1965 Voting Rights Act, which ordered the state should abolish literacy tests as a requirement for registering to vote.

  1. should abolish literacy tests as a requirement for registering to vote.

  2. would abolish literacy tests as a requirement for registering to vote.

  3. to abolish literacy tests as a requirement for registering to vote.

  4. abolishing of literacy tests as a requirement for registering to vote.

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C Correct answer
Explanation

The best answer is (3). The infinitive to abolish follows the verb ordered, producing the grammatical and idiomatic sequence X ordered Y to do Z.