Vocabulary and grammar

Hello, I have many questions related to the grammars and vocabularies in the following sentences.

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Please let me know if the underlined words in the below sentences are appropriate.

1. West’s subject matter primarily concerned the life of rich African Americans. Her first novel, The Living Is Easy, released in 1948, received positive responses from critics.

2. Jacqueline Onassis took note of the short stories that West had been contributing to the Daily News, the local paper at Martha’s Vineyard.

3. Her second novel was published in 1995 and was adapted for a television movie produced by Oprah Winfrey, airing in 1998.

4. My cousin and I went with him to get the puppy, and on the way back to the house, we started to talk about how to name him. Grandpa said that we could call him anything we wanted, so we decided to name that dog Blaze.

5. On the performance day, in spite of her fears, everything went well.

6. She often tried out for school musicals, but never for one of the leading roles. The spotlight didn’t attract her in quite the same way it did others; she preferred to blend into the chorus, when she was faced with a serious challenge.

7. With her mother seated proudly in the audience, Victoria felt proud of herself and delighted to see her mom so happy.

8. Hersuccessful performance rendered her mother thrilled.

Please let me know which one is correct in the below sentences.

9. And the script [asked/asked for/called for] her to be hanging six feet above the stage at one point!

10. Doctors put in a positive mood before making a diagnosis show almost three times [more intelligence and creativity than/as much intelligence and creativity as] [those/they] in a neutral state.

11. But look at a globe instead of a map, and your perspective may change. Rather than [heading/head] east on the Mediterranean route, commercial planes going from Amsterdam to Tokyo now fly north! That’s right.

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