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D. 540 million years
h. It is implied in paragraph 2 that .
A. only one theory to explain the rapid diversification has been proposed
B. the polar wander explanation is accepted by all scientists
C. the theory of polar wander fails to adequately explain the rapid diversification
D. the theory of polar wander is not the only theory to explain the rapid diversification

i. It can be inferred for paragraph 2 that one basis of the theory of polar wander is that
A. relatively little change in the Earth's crust took place during the Cambrian period
place
B. rapid diversification was unable to take palate because of the changes in the Earth's
crust 1
C. the Earth's crust changed more slowly in other periods
D. evolutionary change is unrelated to changes in the environment

Question
The next artist in this survey of American artists is James Whistler, he is included
in this survey was completed in Europe. Whistler was born in Massachusetts in 1834, but
nine years later his father moved the family to St. Petersburg, Russia, to work on the
construction of a railroad. The family returned to the United States in 1849. Two years
later Whistler entered the U.S. military academy at West Point, but he was unable to
graduate. At the age of twenty - one, Whistler went to Europe to study art despite familial
objections, and he remained in Europe until his death.
Mother worked in various art forms, including etchings and lithographs. However,
he is most famous for his paintings, particularly Arrangement in Gray and Black No.1:
Portrait of the Artist’s Mother or Whistler’s Mother, as it is more commonly known. This
painting shows a side view of Whistler's mother, dressed in black and posing against a
gray wall. The asymmetrical nature of the portrait, with his mother seated off-center, is
highly characteristic of Whistler’s work.
1. The paragraph preceding this passage most likely discusses…
A. a survey of eighteenth - century art
B. a different American artist
C. Whistler's other famous paintings

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