LSAT 145 | Section 3 | Reading Comprehension: Q25

RC Question 25 Explanation

DISCUSSION: The passage will directly support the right answer.

If you can’t find the answer in the passage, you’re likely to make a mistake. It’s not that hard to learn to remember roughly where information is, and to quickly scan to find it to confirm an answer.

If you are slow at it, practice. This can be drilled.

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1. Lines 50-57 contradict this answer: the African-American nation had no single homeland.
2. CORRECT. The fourth paragraph supports this. African-Americans were doing a form of nation building (See lines 43-45) even though African-Americans had no territorial sovereignty. (i.e. They didn’t have their own country).
3. The passage contradicts this. Lines 54-55 show that African-American history was somewhat mythical.
4. We don’t know this. Lines 16-17 say that citizenship and emigrationism needed to be investigated by historians. But the passage doesn’t say if any historians advocated emigration. All we know is that some community leaders did (see lines 18-20). Those leaders weren’t necessarily historians.
5. We don’t know this. We do know that the nationalist American historians had a different attitude from African-American historians. And it’s true that lines 6-9 show that transnationalism was necessary for the honest treatment of some aspects of black history.
    
   But that doesn’t mean the two histories focussed on different events. They could have focussed on the same events, but with different attitudes.