Direction: In the following passage, some words have been deleted. Read the passage carefully and select the most appropriate option to fill in each blank.

Can you ______ (1) _______ a deaf woman writing stories about a war? Well, Laura Redden Searing did this. Moreover, she went to foreign countries to write stories. She was very ill when she was 11 years old. Because of this, she lost her ______ (2) _______. She went to the Missouri School for the Deaf. Laura was 19 years old when she went to work for a newspaper. She wrote about people, places and art. In 1859, most women were just wives and ______ (3) _______. They did not work outside the home; otherwise, their husbands would be angry. Due to this feeling, Laura used a ______ (4) _______ name when she wrote her stories. She called herself Howard Glyndon.