Directions: Select the most appropriate filler(s) for the blank(s) such that the sentence makes coherent sense.

Created to defend the papacy and to convert unbelievers in many lands to Christianity, the society of Jesus – better known as the ‘Jesuits’ – found themselves ________ in political _______ almost from the beginning of their existence.

The clause ‘Jesuits’ were involved in conerting unbelievers. It forms a cause–effect relationship and the effect is negative as we can make out from the latter part of the sentence. For the first blank, ‘embroiled’ and ‘entangled’, both meaning involved, fits our prediction, which leaves us with these 2 options - (1) and (3). ‘Foursquare’ means frank, honest, forthright whereas ‘skullduggery’ means dishonesty, which is cogent with political in the sentence. Hence, (3) is the answer.