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1.
Some elections may be limited to one city or area of a country, or others may be a largely national one.
Answer : largely --> large.
My opinion :
1) If large modifies one, it should large.. okay
But, can't it be largely ... if it modifies national?
2) What's the exact meaning of "one city or area of a country?"
Can area come without an article?
Does country mean a nation or a rural area?
[One urban city and a rural area]...?

2.
Much of Mark Twain's writing was flippant and bitterly satire
and famour for its lively dialogues.
Answer: bitterly --> bitter
My opinion
1) Answer seems perfectly fine
2) Does flippant modify satire here or is it a separate modifier?

Thanks

Both sentences are plain wrong, for reasons independent of those you give. Where on earth did you dig them out from?

"Much of Mark Twain's writing was flippant and bitterly satire and famous for its lively dialogues."

The problem is "bitterly satire" because you can't modify a noun with an adverb. So you could change the adverb to an adjective: "bitter satire." In this case flippant and bitter both modify satire. You could also change the noun to an adjective, and therefore the adverb can modify it: "bitterly satirical." In that case flippant and satirical both modify writing.

I prefer the second option. It makes more sense for the coordinated phrases to focus on the same part of speech. "Satirical" goes better with "famous."

The problem is that the same piece of writing cannot be flippant and bitterly satirical. If it's bitterly satirical it's deadly serious.

Mark Twain's writing was often flippant, sometimes bitterly satirical, and famous for its lively dialogues.
Some elections may be limited to one city or country, whilst others may be large, national ones.

The second sentence is still pretty unnatural.