<span>D. past perfect
</span><span><span>Danielle had practiced her song many times before last week’s recital.
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HAD practiced
</span><span>The tense of the underlined verb in the sentence: We had just begun to practice the skit when the fire alarm rang is past perfect. Notice the conditioning word “when” which dictates the sentence to be in the past perfect state in its action verb. Hence, “had” is added next to the past participle of the sentence. For example, the boy had played when suddenly his mom came. </span>
C. The employee had lied about going to his grandmothers funeral
I think that it is "It reinforces the idea that without equality in the US, the idea of a free society is a joke."