13. As interesting as it might have been to hear the responses, this did not seem to be the sort of anecdote that would go _______ especially well at a conference devoted to poetry.
A. over
B. on
C. to
D. away
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14. At the end of my first interview with Oppenheimer, immediately after I had driven cross-country from Los Alamos in a convertible with a large hole in the roof and had been summoned to the interview _______ still covered in grime, he said to me that he and his wife had some pictures I might like to look at sometime.
A. which
B. that
C. while
D. where
15. Columbus is far from being the only _______ to have suffered from time and revision.
A. individual
B. personage
C. person
D. figure
17. I am arriving by degree at my point, _______ is _______ the great issue facing writers both of journalism and of novels is that of determining, and then publishing, the truth.
A. that; which
B. that; what
C. which; that
D. which; what
18. As he grew older, he learned how to _______ his hatred of his mother to the cat, and spent some happy moments watching it suffer.
A. writhe
B. etch
C. slither
D. direct