Direction: In the following passage some words have been deleted. Fill in the blanks with the help of the alternatives given. Select the most appropriate option for each blank.
The Matryoshka doll is also called the Russian nesting doll. It is a SET (176)______ wooden dolls decreasing in size and (177)______ inside one another. The first such SET (178)______ in 1890. The figures inside may be of (179)______ gender. The smallest doll is the baby, made from (180)______ single piece of wood.
Select the most appropriate option to fill in blank number (178).

Options

A. is made
B. has been made
C. made
D. was made

Answer

D

Explanation

(d) was made
For the fixed past time, simple past tense is used. Here 1890 is given so the tense would be simple past.
The simple past tense is used to refer to an action that happened in the past. It often occurs with an adverb of time phrase. So the correct sentence will be “The first such SET was made in 1890”.