Directions: Fill in the blanks in the following paragraph with the exact words that appear in your textbook. Fill in each blank with only ONE word. Xiang Yu was a Chinese Imperial general in the third century B.C. who took his troops across the Zhang River on a (1) into enemy territory. To his troops' astonishment, he ordered their cooking pots (2)and their sailing ships burned. He explained that he was (3) on them a necessity for attaining victory over their (4). What he said was surely motivating, but it wasn't really (5) by many of his loyal soldiers as they watched their (6) go up in flames. But the genius of General Xiang Yu's (7)would be validated both on the battlefield and in (8) social science research. General Xiang Yu was a (9) exception to the norm, a veteran leader who was (10)respected by his many conquests and who achieved the summit of success.