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American Roots: From Native Traditions to the American Revolution — Test

Question 18 • Language Arts 11

Read the excerpt from "Rebuilding the Cherokee Nation.” I can’t tell you how many everyday Americans that I’ve talked with who’ve visited a tribal community in Oklahoma or in other places, and they’ve looked around and they saw all the social indicators of decline: high infant mortality, high unemployment, many, many other very serious problems among our people, and they always ask, "What happened to these people? Why do native peoples have all these problems?”, and I think that in order to understand the contemporary issues we’re dealing with today and how we plan to dig our way out . . . you have to understand a little bit about history. Read Lily’s paraphrase of the excerpt. Student Work Wilma Mankiller cannot say how many people she has talked to who visit a tribe and see evidence that things are not going well and then ask questions about why Indigenous people have so many problems. She thinks that, in order to comprehend the modern problems tribal communities have, people have to do research into history. Which paraphrasing mistake has Lily made?

Answer
A
She misrepresented the speaker’s ideas.
B
She did not include the questions from the source.
C
She did not make the complex ideas easier to understand.
D
She cited the source improperly.
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