PrepTest 144, Section 1, Question 18
Before contact with Europeans, the Haudenosaune, a group(466 more words not shown)
The passage provides the most(8 more words not shown)
- AWampum was probably(17 more words not shown)
- BThe formation of(19 more words not shown)
- COnce wampum came(24 more words not shown)
- DPrior to Haudenosaune(19 more words not shown)
- EAs belt wampum(21 more words not shown)
Reading the passage
The confederacy's formation supplied the “major impetus” for a more deliberate symbolic system. Before that, loose beads conveyed basic ideas and strings sent simple messages. Afterward, belts could encode constitutional provisions and other governmental business. That progression supports a new political need for more complex communication.
Working the answers
- A
The account attributes wampum's development into a medium of exchange to Europeans. It does not supply evidence for economic exchange long before contact. We should not invent an earlier money use to soften the author's correction of that view.
- BCorrect
Bringing the nations together required more than the simpler messages described earlier. The confederacy's formation drove the development of a deliberate system capable of recording constitutional provisions and governmental business. That supports the need for a more complex method.
- C
No recodification of the constitution in response to European trade is described. The monetary use does not establish any change in how constitutional provisions were represented.
- D
The opening does describe the developing communication as primarily political. But political communication is broader than promulgating official edicts and policies. The examples include truce requests, relationships and safe-conduct passes; they do not establish edict-and-policy announcements as the primary use.
- E
The author does not say belts displaced strings as a method of communication, or that new shades of beads appeared. White and deep purple remain the two colors; increasingly complex arrangements are not subtler color shades.
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