405. The paucity of autobiographical documents left by the royal attendants has compelled historian Raul Salazar to ______ the motives of these countries from their ______ rather than from any diaries or correspondence.
A. stipulate, accomplishments
B. contemplate, journals
C. surmise, deeds
D. allege, assertions
E. elicit, missive

406. The painter lamented the evanescence of beauty, even though she seemed in several of her works to have ______ it as it passed and so ______ it for posterity.
A. seized, absolved
B. vanquished, perpetuated
C. arrested, preserved
D. neglectd, established
E. dispelled, enshrined

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