Question

read the excerpt from
ebuilding the cherokee nation.\
another thing that i saw was great leadership in our communities, and leadership again, its kind of like the way i talked about looking at government. our government may have not looked like the us government, but its a government and the leadership we saw in our communities may not have looked like leadership that you see in the external world, but the leadership existed. you could find the leadership just by seeing who people go to when theres a time of crisis in the community.
courtesy of the wilma mankiller trust
which sentence best integrates a direct quotation from the excerpt?
○ in mankiller’s view, the leaders of the cherokee nation do not look like the leaders from \the us government or the external world.\
○ unlike the leaders of the us government, the cherokee leaders are the ones \who people go to when theres a time of crisis.\
○ mankiller states that in the cherokee nation, \the leadership existed,\ even though the leadership may not have looked like leadership that people see in the external world.
○ mankiller explains that cherokee leadership looked different from other governments because \you could find the leadership just by seeing who people go to when theres a time of crisis in the community.\

Explanation:

To determine the best integration of a direct quotation, we analyze each option:

• First option: The quoted phrase does not match the excerpt’s content (excerpt focuses on leadership existence, not appearance of leaders vs. US gov).
• Second option: The quoted phrase is taken out of context; the excerpt’s “who people go to in crisis” explains how to identify leadership, not a contrast with US leaders.
• Third option: The quotation “the leadership existed” is accurately taken from the excerpt, and the surrounding text correctly paraphrases the excerpt’s point about leadership’s appearance vs. existence.
• Fourth option: The quoted phrase is misused; the excerpt’s “you could find…crisis” explains how to identify leadership, not why it looked different.

Answer:

C. Mankiller states that in the Cherokee Nation, "the leadership existed," even though the leadership may not have looked like leadership that people see in the external world.