LSAT 116 | Section 4 | Reading Comprehension: Q18

RC Question 18 Explanation

DISCUSSION: An autobiography, in Western Culture, is when someone writes about their life. That’s why the passage mentioned those three words: they are the elements of our autobiographies.

The passage tells us that Native Americans think differently about the elements that make up their idea of “autobiography”

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1. CORRECT. Native Americans don’t have the same autobiographical ideas that Europeans do. That is why the bicultural biographies of Native Americans aren’t enough. 
2. The passage doesn’t say whether early Native Americans are different from modern Natives. 
3. If this is right, then what are the old and new meanings of these words? None are given. The meanings didn’t change in English. 
4. The passage doesn’t talk about how autobiography started. 
5. Same as D. The passage talks about the root meaning of autobiography, but it doesn’t say how the idea started.