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Question

The first commercially successful drama to depict Black family life sympathetically and the first play by a Black woman to be produced on Broadway, it was Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun that won the New York Drama Critics’ Circle Award in 1959, and was later made into both a film and a musical.

Difficulty Level

Solution

Option D is the correct answer

Option Analysis

Concept tested: Modifiers, Pronouns.

A) Incorrect beginning of the sentence. The sentence should start with the name of the book because the modifier before it “The first…” talks about the book.

B) Incorrect beginning of the sentence. The sentence should start with the name of the book because the modifier before it “The first…” talks about the book.

C) Incorrect beginning of the sentence. The sentence should start with the name of the book because the modifier before it “The first…” talks about the book.

D) Correct Answer

E) Incorrect usage of the pronoun “it” as the same doesn’t have a valid antecedent.