143. Government officials authorized ______ because they wanted to have a complete enumeration of the country's population.
A. a discontinuance
B. an appointment
C. a waiver
D. a census
E. a levy
144. Even in her fiction writing, Denise Chavez functions as a kind of historian in that she ______ the real experiences of Hispanic women through her characters.
A. predicts
B. defends
C. chronicles
D. averts
E. surmises