PrepTest 110, Section 4, Question 25
While historians once propagated the myth that Africans(458 more words not shown)
Which one of the following(10 more words not shown)
- AA historical phenomenon(20 more words not shown)
- BA historical discovery(20 more words not shown)
- CA historical fact(18 more words not shown)
- DA historical question(21 more words not shown)
- EA historical question(20 more words not shown)
Reading the passage
My first map is chronological: the introduction of rice, cultivation during slavery, and cultivation afterward. In terms of the reasoning, we learn a historical fact, ask why the practice continued, and get different answers for the two periods.
Working the answers
- A
Vernon's explanations aren't competing theories from which one winner is selected. Different conditions explain cultivation at different times; we don't discard one explanation in favor of the other.
- B
A discovery and methods do appear: the document and interviews tell us how Vernon learned things. But the ending isn't two unanswered questions. We receive proposed answers about why people grew rice.
- CCorrect
The historical fact is rice cultivation by Africans and African Americans. The question is why it continued in an economy devoted to cotton. Vernon then offers “two intriguing answers,” depending on whether the time is before or after slavery. That's our map in more general terms.
- D
The difficulties make post-slavery cultivation puzzling, but they aren't the conclusion. The final paragraph goes on to explain the practice through the value of transforming and symbolically claiming land.
- E
A study is described, so that part is fine. The full sequence fails: we begin with the historical contribution, and we end by developing answers about the cultivators' motives, not discussing issues surrounding the study.
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