Multiple choice

Directions: Choose the best option to fill in the blanks.

When what “Mark Twain” was writing was in circuit with his ________ perceptions he was superb; the breaking of the circuit always threw him into extemporization, which meant that fiction fell away into ________ and satire into ________.

  1. wildest, tranquility, staid

  2. faulty, rationality, slack

  3. minimising, frugality, parody

  4. deepest, extravaganza, burlesque

  5. keen, prodigality, asinine
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Explanation

The first part of the sentence is positive, whereas the latter part is comic or derisive, as is indicated by the word ‘satire’ in the latter part of the sentence. ‘Deepest’ perception makes the positive part, while ‘extravaganza’ and ‘burlesque’ make the latter 

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