Ambrose Bierce was a journalist. Many of [___]newspaper columns focused on corruption, fraud, and people Bierce didn’t like. Bierce had a biting wit, so people did not want to find [___] the subject of one of [___] columns. However, [___] also had a very serious side to his writing. In fact, Bierce was disappointed with the war reporting of [___] day, so he basically said, “I will do it [___]!” At the age of 71, [___] rode alongside Pancho Villa's army as [___] waged revolution across Mexico.
Ambrose Bierce was a man, so the masculine pronouns fit the passage: he, his, him, and himself. The sentence describes him writing newspaper columns and later riding with Pancho Villa’s army. Choice B, “he,” is the masculine pronoun choice; choice A, “she,” does not refer to Bierce correctly.
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