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To restate the grim daily round of physical labor from sunup to sundown, choice B for Blank (i), privation, and choice E for Blank (ii), woe, are the best choices. For Blank (i), the words employment and mediocrity, choices A and C, are not only inaccurate, but they're also not negative enough. For Blank (ii), choices D and F, inanity and striving," are similarly insufficiently negative as well as inaccurate. For Blank (iii), choice H, "carouse," is correct because the passage says the peasants are depicted as in "a nearly frenzied release." Neither choice G, unwind," nor choice I, sing, expresses the meaning conveyed by choice H , carouse: "to engage in noisy, drunken, boisterous, or even riotous merrymaking."