Read the Paragraph Below and Answer the Questions That Follow

question 46

Multiple Choice

Read the paragraph below and answer the questions that follow.
(1) It would be difficult to imagine a more stifling and uncomfortable outfit than one favored by the fashionable, well-to-do lady of the Elizabethan era. (2) Atop her dyed and styled hair, she wore an often elaborate headdress. (3) Her face was covered with a base coat of white lead and sulfur makeup, with additional layers of dye for cheeks and lips. (4) Around her neck was either a heavy necklace of large jewels or a ruff, a stiff ring made of starched lace. (5) A bodice with long, detachable sleeves covered her to her waist. (6) Beneath this bodice, a corset functioned as a girdle to flatten her chest and decrease the size of her waist. (7) Underneath her skirt, or kirtle, she wore a stiff frame made of wire or whalebone, which was designed to make the skirt balloon out from the body. (8) On her legs and feet, knee-length stockings made of wool or silk and leather shoes completed her many-layered costume.
Select the number of the topic sentence that states the overall impression of the subject.

• A) Sentence 1
• B) Sentence 2
• C) Sentence 3

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Definitions:

Herbaceous

Describes plants with soft, green stems, without significant woody tissue, and which might die back at the end of the growing season.

Woody

Describes plant stems and structures that are hard and fibrous, typically found in trees and shrubs.

Basal Angiosperms

Three clades of angiosperms that are thought to be ancestral to all other flowering plants. Compare with core angiosperms.

Core Angiosperms

A group within the angiosperms (flowering plants) that includes most of the common and well-known flowering plants.