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In Hafez's Divan, the writer muses on love, faith, and protest. So impactful is this particular work by Hafez, a Persian lyric poet whose authorial perspective was at once mystical and critical, that its ruminations on fourteenth-century Persian life _____ Iranian society hundreds of years later.
Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?
is influencing
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influences
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influence
C
has influenced
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