The wise leader and politician assassinated.​

Explanation:

was

It's the only word I can think of that can go in the blank.

I had intended to leave the interesting comment made by a student and my response in the comments, but I decided to copy them and put them here.

Just out of curiosity, why would it not be were? I was thinking that the wise leader and politician could be grouped into “they were” rather than “they was”.

jcherry99 avatar

Interesting comment. I hope the asker reads what you've said and how I replied. You took it as two different people. I took it as one: somebody like JFK or MLK. There is no way to make it clearer, and retain the simplicity of the sentence.

jcherry99 avatar

I'm working on my cell, which I find impossible to do well.

Oh! Thank you for helping me understand

moon-letters were a method of writing invented by the dwarves. moon-letters were ordinary runes, but written in such a way that they could only be read when the light of the moon shone behind the writing. some moon-letters could be read by any moonlight, but it was possible to make the writing even more secret. more sophisticated moon-letters could only be read by the light of the same shape of moon, or at the same time of year, as when they were written. hope this !

the purpose of the heading in the passage is to identify who is telling the story.

this excerpt is part of the book sugar changed the world (2010) written by marc aronson and marina budhos. as the book has been written by two people, the heading "marc" indicates that this specific excerpt is being narrated by aronson. in the fragment, marc describes his grandfather's story after hearing it from his cousin. however, there are other excerpts where budhos is the one that tells the story of her family.

aronson and budhos, who are husband and wife in real life, decided to write sugar changed the world when they found out how sugar, which had an important role in slavery and economy, changed their ancestors' lives.