Each of the following sentences in this section has a blank space with four words or group of words given. Select whichever word or group of words you consider most appropriate for the blank space and indicate your response on the Answer Sheet accordingly.

At the simplest level, a nation is a (1) ______ large-scale community – it is a community of communities. Members of a nation share the desire to be part of the same political (2) ______. This desire for political unity usually expresses itself as the (3) ______ to form a state. In its most general sense, the term state (4) ______ to an abstract entity consisting of a set of political-legal institutions claiming control over a particular geographical (5) ______ and the people living in it.