PrepTest 144, Section 1, Question 15
Before contact with Europeans, the Haudenosaune, a group(466 more words not shown)
The fishing practice mentioned in(10 more words not shown)
- Aa type of(12 more words not shown)
- Ba traditional practice(7 more words not shown)
- Can activity that(9 more words not shown)
- Da practice that(7 more words not shown)
- Ea traditional practice(10 more words not shown)
Reading the passage
The anglers use loose beads to communicate with Sapling or Flint. This comes before strings carrying political messages and belts encoding governmental information. The example shows an early religious use within the larger development of wampum as communication.
Working the answers
- A
The beads are used to communicate with spirits. The example does not describe recording fishing knowledge in wampum and passing that knowledge on to other people. It changes the direction and purpose of the communication.
- B
No European alteration of this fishing practice is described. European trade belongs to a different part of the account.
- C
Nothing says the confederacy's laws regulated this activity. The later discussion of encoding laws does not make this earlier fishing practice an example of regulation.
- D
The author says legend indicates the practice. We are not told that many historians discovered it by studying the beads. This invents an account of how historians learned about it.
- ECorrect
The traditional fishing practice illustrates the stage when loose beads carried religious meaning. That fits the larger movement from those basic associations to strings and belts used for political communication. The example's role is to show a stage of use, not merely that the Haudenosaune fished.
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