LSAT 102 | Section 1 | Reading Comprehension: Q18

RC Question 18 Explanation

DISCUSSION: Paragraphs two and three show that the author thinks Pan-Indianism is incorrect. There’s no evidence for Pan-Indianism’s major assumption (lines 39-40), and there’s evidence to contradict the theory (lines 20-22).

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1. No one mentioned political motives.
2. Only the author mentioned cultural borrowing.
    
   (lines 47-48)
3. Pan-Indianism predicts tribal culture will disappear. This answer is nonsense.
4. Pan-Indian theorists never said whether assimilation was a good thing. They just said it would happen.
5. CORRECT. I would have preferred that the right answer be more critical. The author doesn’t think that Pan-Indianism offers even a partial explanation.
    
   Nonetheless, it’s certainly true that the author doesn’t think Pan-Indianism explains the changes in Native societies. And lines 27-29 can be interpreted to support the idea that the author thinks Pan-Indianism is wrong but not completely wrong.