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September 19, 2013

 

 

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Today's Practice GMAT Question:

Before converting to Christianity and marrying Jadwiga, the second of Poland's Angevin rulers, thereby becoming King of Poland, Wladyslaw II was known as Jogaila, Grand Duke of Lithuania.
(A) Before converting to Christianity and marrying Jadwiga, the second of Poland's Angevin rulers, thereby becoming King of Poland, Wladyslaw II was known as Jogaila, Grand Duke of Lithuania.
(B) Before he converted to Christianity, married Jadwiga, the second ruler of Poland's Angevin, and became King of Poland, Wladyslaw II was known as Jogaila, Grand Duke of Lithuania.
(C) Before marrying Jadwiga, the second of Poland's Angevin rulers, thereby converting to Christianity and becoming King of Poland, Wladyslaw II was known as Grand Duke of Lithuania, Jogaila.
(D) Before Wladyslaw II converted to Christianity and married Jadwiga, the second ruler of Poland's Angevin, thereby becoming King of Poland, he was Jogaila, Grand Duke of Lithuania.
(E) Before Wladyslaw II converted to Christianity and married Jadwiga, the second of Poland's Angevin rulers, thereby becoming King of Poland, he was Grand Duke of Lithuania, Jogaila.


 

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