Complete each of the following sentences by choosing the correct form of the verb to fill in the blank.
For help with this exercise, see section 25d of Foundations First, Fifth Edition.
Doughnuts _______________ invented by bakers in Holland in the sixteenth century.
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Before they were called doughnuts, they _______________ named “oil cakes.”
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The Pilgrims came to America after they _______________ years in Holland.
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They ____________ these oil cakes, which had no holes.
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After a while, Americans _______________ the name “dough nut” to these cakes because they were the size of a walnut.
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The hole in the doughnut’s center was the result of an incident that _______________ in the mid-1900s.
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After a sea captain from Maine _______________ a hole in his mother’s doughnuts, the idea caught on.
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Chocolate chip cookies _______________ invented by an American woman, Ruth Wakefield.
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She _______________ the cook and baker at the Toll House Inn in New England.
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Mrs. Wakefield _______________ chocolate chunks to her cookie recipe before anyone else ever thought of the idea.
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