RC Drill Set 1, Question 5
In a series of presidential proclamations between 1902(466 more words not shown)
The passage most strongly supports(12 more words not shown)
- AThey left the(15 more words not shown)
- BPrior to the(20 more words not shown)
- CPrior to the(17 more words not shown)
- DThey traditionally considered(20 more words not shown)
- EThey persevered for(12 more words not shown)
Reading the passage
What do we actually know about these nations? Their traditional ownership wasn't recognized by the Act's individual-property model, and the ending describes a limited court award. This is an open inference question, so we need a claim supported by that account, not an assumed belief about what Native communities generally value.
Working the answers
- A
No departure from the Tongass region is described.
- B
We aren't told about earlier offers of compensation or refusals of them.
- C
Nothing establishes opposition to every monetary settlement. The incomplete award doesn't show that the tribes opposed receiving money.
- D
This excludes families, but traditional Native law expressly “presumes family and clan ownership.” We can't replace that with ownership only by the tribe as a whole.
- ECorrect
Native Alaskans organized to address land issues in 1912, and the award finally came in 1968—a span of 56 years. That history supports perseverance over many years. Persevering doesn't require obtaining everything they wanted; the ending makes clear that the remedy remained incomplete.
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