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22. It can be inferred that which of the following is most
    likely to be among the “issues” mentioned in line 38?
    (A) Why has the work of Griffith, a woman writer
    who was popular in her own century, been
    excluded from the canon?
    (B) In what ways did Griffith's work reflect the polit-
    ical climate of the eighteenth century?
    (C) How was Griffith's work received by literary
    critics during the eighteenth century?
    (D) How did the error in the title of Griffith's play
    come to be made?
    (E) How did critical reception of Griffith's work
    affect the quantity and quality of that work?
    23. It can be inferred that the author of the passage con-
    siders traditional scholarly methods courses to be
    (A) irrelevant to the work of most students
    (B) inconsequential because of their narrow focus
    (C) unconcerned about the accuracy of reference
    sources
    (D) too superficial to establish important facts about
    authors
    (E) too wide-ranging to approximate genuine scholarly
    activity
    Experiments show that insects can function as pollinators
    of cycads, rare, palmlike tropical plants. Furthermore, cycads
    removed from their native habitats-and therefore from
    insects native to those habitats-are usually infertile. Nev-
    (5) ertheless, anecdotal reports of wind pollination in cycads
    cannot be ignored. The structure of cycads male cones is
    quite consistent with the wind dispersal of pollen, clouds
    of which are released from some of the larger cones. The
    male cone of Cycas circinalis, for example, sheds almost
    (10)100 cubic centimeters of pollen, most of which is probably
    dispersed by wind. Still, many male cycad cones are com-
    paratively small and thus produce far less pollen. Further-
    more, the structure of most female cycad cones seems incon-
    sistent with direct pollination by wind. Only in the Cycas
    (15)genus are the females' ovules accessible to airborne pollen,
    since only in this genus are the ovules surrounded by a
    loose aggregation of megasporophylls rather than by a tight
    cone.
    24.According to the passage, the size of a male cycad
    cone directly influences which of the following?
    (A) The arrangement of the male cone's structural
    elements
    (B) The mechanism by which pollen is released from
    the male cone.
    (C) The degree to which the ovules of female cycads
    are accessible to airborne pollen
    (D) The male cone's attractiveness to potential insect
    pollinators
    (E) The amount of pollen produced by the male cone