Question 33 - Reading and Writing Practice Test for the PSAT/NMSQT Exam

Which verb or verb phrase best completes the sentence in the passage provided?

Although images from the celebration at Promontory Point ____ the Transcontinental Railroad was built by mostly white workers, it was largely the Chinese labor that constructed this feat of transportation. E.B. Crocker, a wealthy merchant in Sacramento, hired Chinese workers because of their expertise in gunpowder technology that helped blast through some of the mountain passes in record time.