Review the item:
Professor Ayer __________ several deep breaths to keep from exploding at Jerry, whose excuse for missing yet another class was that Grandma had died—for the fifth time in one semester!

The blank requires the past tense of take, an irregular verb. Took is the simple past form.

Verb Simple
Present
Simple
Past
Past
Participle
take take(s) took taken

Tooked, the form you chose, is a spelling error. Before you continue, review the rules for irregular verbs.

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