Read the excerpt from "Rebuilding the Cherokee Nation.” What’s interesting, I think, and what gives me hope and keeps me optimistic about our people, however, is to look and see how our people dealt with that after removal. After removal, we ended up in Indian Territory. Everything we’d ever known had been left behind, that which bound us as a people: the cultural system, the social system, and the political system, everything we’d ever known had been left behind. Many people were dead, families were bitterly divided over the issue of removal itself, and yet almost immediately after removal, our people began to try to come together and build a community and rebuild a tribe. Which sentence best integrates a direct quotation from the excerpt?
Answer
A
Mankiller is optimistic about the future of the Cherokee Nation because it was able to “build” a new “tribe” after removal.
B
Mankiller has faith that the Cherokee Nation will survive because of its ability to “come together and build a community” after the adversity of removal.
C
Mankiller admires the ability of the Cherokee people to reunite despite being “bitterly divided” from everything they had ever known.
D
Mankiller is proud that the Cherokee people were able to survive despite being forced to leave behind their “cultural, social, and political” systems.
Explanation
Choice B smoothly incorporates the excerpt’s exact words, “come together and build a community,” into a sentence explaining why Mankiller feels hopeful. The quotation supports the idea that the Cherokee people began rebuilding after the hardships of removal. Choice C uses “bitterly divided” but changes what the division was about: the excerpt says families were divided over removal itself.
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