<u>Answer</u>:
The Pendleton Civil Service Act intended to reform the federal hiring practices.
<u>Explanation</u>:
This act was to ensure federal employment based on merit rather than hiring based on affiliations with political parties. Following the widespread corruption and incompetence post Civil war, the public demanded civil service to be reformed.
All the citizens were to be given equal opportunity for employment for federal services regardless of their national origin, race, ethnicity, etc. This provided protection to the federal employees. It was also according to this act illegal to demote government officials for political reasons. A commission was formed to ensure the merit system.
Delegate is the term used for assigning the responsibility of completing a task to another person.
If you delegate a task to someone, you are entrusting that task to another person. Usually the person that delegates a task has seniority over the other person. There are many synonyms for delegate that would also be appropriate to use in the blank, like transfer or assign.
This quote, if from the correct source, means that "<span>D. Running makes the speaker very happy" It also means that the speaker puts forth this happiness through the act of running. </span>
