PrepTest 117 - Section 1 - Passage 2 - Question 13

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In the field of historiography—the writing of history based on a critical examination of authentic primary information sources—one area that has recently attracted attention focuses on the responses of explorers and settlers to new landscapes in order to provide insights into the transformations the landscape itself has undergone as a result of settlement. ██ ████ ████████ ████████████████ █████████ ███ ███████ ██ ███ ███████ █████ ██ ███ ██████ ██████ ████ █████████████ ████████ ██ ███ ███████ ████ ██ ████████ ████████ █████████ ██ ███ ██████████ ███████ ████ ██ ████████████ ██████ ██ ███ ████ ███████████ ████ ██████████ ██ ██████ ██████████ █████ ████████ ██ ████████

Traditional sources · for studying land of Pacific Coast: written records from European American explorers

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New sources needed · Traditional sources omit response of Asian settlers to the land

Asian settlers didn't leave many written records.

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Example of Chinese settlers' impact · Irrigated much of the land

This helped the area become a top producer of many specialty crops. Historiographers can't fully undersatnd this without studying Chinese settlers.

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This Inference question asks us to identify an answer that is supported by the information in the passage. This question doesn’t direct our attention to a specific part of the passage, so we will approach this question with the process of elimination.

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Unsupported. The passage doesn’t indicate why most Chinese settlers came to the region.

Chinese agricultural methods ██ ███ ██████████ ███████ ████████ █████████ ██ █████ ████████████

This is supported in P4, which says that swamp reclamation was one of the specialized skills of Chinese settlers. Since this was one of their specialized skills, we can infer that swamp reduction was a Chinese agricultural method in the nineteenth century.

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Anti-supported. Actually, other settlers saw wild mustard as a nuisance, so they probably didn’t use wild mustard seed as a spice. Also, it was the Chinese settlers who used wild mustard as a spice.

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Unsupported. The author doesn’t make a claim on the merits of studying the actions of European settlers.

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Unsupported. We only know that there weren’t very many written records from Asian settlers (if any); if these records existed, the passage doesn’t indicate that they were neglected and lost.

PrepTest 117 - Section 1 - Passage 2 - Question 13

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