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Questions 12–22 are based on the following passage.

The Other Steel City

[1]

12 Set on the banks of Monocacy Creek, the area that is now Bethlehem, PA, was inhabited by a rich

13 diversity of indigenous peoples. [A] By the time of that contact, the area was primarily one of the
Algonquian-speaking Lenape tribe and its various divisions. 14 They traded with many settlers in the
mid-Atlantic region.

12 .Which   of  the following   best    introduces  the historical  tone    of  this    essay?

A) NO   CHANGE

B) Home to  over    700,000 people,

C) Long before  European    contact,

D) About    50  miles   north   of  Philadelphia,

13 .Which   of  the following   alternatives    to  the underlined  portion would   be  LEAST

acceptable?

A) variety

B) arrangement

C) assortment

D) multiplicity

14.

A) NO CHANGE

B) It

C) Some

D) These    groups

[2]

While many groups in other regions were systematically exterminated and relegated to smaller plots
of land, the Lenape 15 went on to continue to be a contributing factor to the landscape of the early

region. Even after the initial European settlement on Christmas 16 Eve in 1741, the Lenape trading
continued, though the written history primarily follows the progress of white settlers.

[3]

These settlers, a group of Moravians led by David Nitschman and Count Nicolas von Zinzendorf,
called the region Bethlehem, after the birthplace of Jesus Christ. The Moravians set up missions to
convert the Lenape and non-English-speaking Christians to the tenets of Moravianism, 17 a practice
widely criticized for its ignorance of local traditions. [B] Although the group was relatively small and its