RC Drill Set 2, Question 5
Studying West African symbol systems may clarify some(460 more words not shown)
The author's discussion of Njoya's(9 more words not shown)
- Agive evidence that(15 more words not shown)
- Bargue by analogy(14 more words not shown)
- Cprovide an example(16 more words not shown)
- Dprovide an example(13 more words not shown)
- Esuggest that although(19 more words not shown)
Reading the passage
Why tell us how one person invented Bamum? The broader project is understanding Egyptian writing. Njoya supplies a concrete example that makes a possibility easier to see: perhaps a single inventor also explains the complex form and sudden appearance of hieroglyphics.
Working the answers
- A
This makes independence from Egyptian influence the purpose of the example. The discussion doesn't investigate whether Njoya knew hieroglyphics; it uses his invention to suggest how one person might create a complex system.
- BCorrect
The ending explicitly proposes creation by one individual (paragraph 4) as an explanation for Egyptian writing. Njoya is the analogous case supporting that possibility, not proof that Egypt necessarily followed the same path.
- C
Njoya's work may show creativity, but the discussion isn't primarily celebrating regional creativity. The example serves the question about Egyptian origins.
- D
Adoption by several cultures isn't described. We are told about uses of the system for the Bamum language.
- E
The text doesn't propose that the old Nsibidi tradition developed from Njoya's much more recent invention. This reverses the relationship between the examples.
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