A. #1
B. #3
C. #4
D. #1
E. #2
An indefinite pronoun is a pronoun that doesn't refer to a person or thing in particular so i'm going to say C. each
Answer:
The word "protracted" means lasting longer than expected, or unusually long, so what protracted most clearly means based on the context of the excerpt is how the time period of celestial motion studies must have lasted unusually long.
Answer:
B. Denied any wrongdoing and tried to blame the motives of their critics
Explanation:
According to "Food Nation," manure gets into the meat at slaughterhouses because the stomachs and intestines of animals are not discarded correctly, and the knives of slaughterhouse workers are not cleaned often enough. As a result, after the E.coli epidemic 1992, inspectors would test each case of meat delivered to restaurants for the existence of pathogens.