|Question 2Verbal

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Though Vasily Grossman's novel Stalingrad is not as beloved as his later work Life and Fate, some critics commend it despite its mangling by Soviet censors: Luke Harding in The Guardian called it "one of the great novels of the twentieth century." Several draft versions have been _____, and translators consulted those drafts when working on what they hoped would be a definitive English edition.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?
assigned
A
hypothesized
B
debunked
C
preserved
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