The correct answer is While breaking one pencil during the SATs is bad luck, breaking six pencils is downright abysmal.
Because abysmal is an adjective, and in the rest of the examples it is incorrectly used instead of a noun.
The authors of “Sugar Changed the World”, the couple Marc Aronson and Marina Budhos, want to claim with this passage how different the views on slavery were for French inhabitants and for the inhabitants in the colonies and how the change in view came about.
Answer: The judges' freeing of Pauline would have a significant effect on how people viewed involuntary servitude.
the answer to this question happens to be c) uncertainty