Directions: For the following questions, select the two
answer choices that, when used to complete the sentence, fit the meaning of the
sentence as a whole and produce completed sentences that are alike in
meaning. Because it arrives so early in the season, before many other birds,
the robin has been called the ______ of spring.
A. prototype
B. hostage
C. harbinger
D. herald
E. progeny
F. newcomer