Paraphrasing and Quoting from a Nonfiction Text: Cherokee Cavaliers
Question 6 of 20 • FL-1001375-English 3 A-CR
Read the excerpt from "Rebuilding the Cherokee Nation.”Some of the impetus for the removal was economic. Cherokee land was good land for growing cotton, was good land for growing tobacco, and also some gold had been discovered within the Cherokee Nation, and then there were also a number of corporations and individuals who wanted our land, so all those were factors in the pressure for removal.Read Mea’s paraphrase of the excerpt.Some of the reasons for the Cherokee removal were economic. The land owned by the Cherokee Nation was fertile and held valuable resources, and many people wanted it.Courtesy of the Wilma Mankiller Trust
Answer
A
She included ideas not found in the original text.
B
She did not properly cite the source material.
C
She misrepresented the ideas in the original text.
D
She used language too close to the source material.