They are not going to get married at all. Their engagement has been _____.

(adapted from The Advanced Learner's Dictionary of Current English)

There was, in short, no Jewish expectation of a messiah whose death and resurrection would _____ the forgiveness of sins and offer believers eternal life.

(adapted from Newsweek, March 28, 2005)

Choose the preposition that correctly completes the prepositional verb in the sentence below:

"Rejoice always, pray constantly, give thanks, hold fast what is good, abstain _____ every form of evil" - wise words for all of us, whatever our doubts, whatever our faith.

(from Newsweek, March 28, 2005)

The item which presents an incorrect classification of the following subordinate clauses is:

The item which refers to the series in which all the words or phrases belong to the same part of speech is

In paragraph 6, Eamon Duffy claims that Ratzinger's words at Subiaco

Ratzinger's words in paragraph 5 suggest that

In the text, skirmish (line 30) means

From paragraph 4 we infer that to the Vatican commentator John Allen, Pope Benedict

In the text, bleak (line 42) means