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Questions 8 (Suggested completion time: 2 minutes) Directions: Read the text, and answer the question according to the text. When hunting raccoons for fur was a popular sport, hunting dogs were used to sniff them out of trees. As they are XXXX animals, the hunting party had to work at night, and the dogs would sometimes end up choosing the wrong tree, or as the idiom goes, “bark up the wrong tree.” The term was first printed in a book by Davy Crockett in 1833. 8. Which word is the best substitution for the missing word XXXX?