Read the excerpt from A History of the World in 100 Objects. Power is usually not willingly given, but forcefully taken; and in both Europe and America the nineteenth century was punctuated by political protest, with periodic revolutions on the continent, the Civil War in America and, in Britain, a steady struggle to widen the suffrage.

A reader can pause and reread sentences in a written excerpt to understand them more clearly. This is especially helpful here because the sentence includes several examples of political struggle. The correct choice is “The reader could set his or her own pace and reread parts for clarity.”

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