PrepTest 145, Section 3, Question 22
In contrast to the mainstream of U.S. historiography(459 more words not shown)
Which one of the following(7 more words not shown)
- AEmigrationist sentiment would(28 more words not shown)
- BScholars writing the(21 more words not shown)
- CMost historians of(26 more words not shown)
- DTo be properly(19 more words not shown)
- EA considerable number(16 more words not shown)
Reading the passage
The second paragraph gives a causal connection we can use: citizenship remained unresolved, and because of that, emigration became central to political debate. The possibility of leaving did not appear in isolation from dissatisfaction with membership in the United States.
What we’re looking for
That supports a qualified inference about what would have happened had citizenship's promise actually been fulfilled.
Working the answers
- ACorrect
If unresolved citizenship helped make emigration attractive, fully realizing citizenship's promise would remove that source of pressure. The answer predicts weaker emigrationist sentiment, not that no one would have wanted to leave for any reason.
- B
We get no general rule about what scholars of diasporas usually leave out. The final sentence even connects this particular history to a people scattered by force and circumstance.
- C
The author describes glorifying national histories, but does not establish that most historians of the whole period deliberately made nations appear more glorious than the historical reality. The scope and comparison with reality go beyond what is given.
- D
A nationalist approach emphasizes a nation; that does not require ignoring its effects on other nations. Colonial expansion is itself discussed as part of the nationalist context.
- E
The historians distrusted U.S. nationalism. Their own cultural nation building does not amount to embracing the inevitability of the nation-state's dominance. The answer confuses two different senses of nationalism that the author carefully distinguishes.
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