1. This final essay, its prevailing kindliness______by occasional flashes of savage irony, bespeaks the______character of the author.
(A) illuminated...imperturbable
(B) marred...dichotomous
(C) untainted...vindictive
(D) exemplified...chivalrous
(E) diluted...ruthless
2. Far from viewing Jefferson as a skeptical but enlightened intellectual, historians of the 1960’s portrayed him as______thinker, eager to fill the young with his political orthodoxy while censoring ideas he did not like.
(A) an adventurous
(B) a doctrinaire
(C) an eclectic
(D) a judicious
(E) a cynical
3. Rather than enhancing a country’s security, the successful development of nuclear weapons could serve at first to increase that country’s _________.
(A) boldness
(B) influence
(C) responsibility
(D) moderation
(E) vulnerability