Question

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ebuilding the cherokee nation.\ one of the things that i saw, just as if you look at what happened after the trail of tears, you can look at some of the positive things that happened among our people. what i looked at in our communities is i saw among our people—they had unbelievable tenacity. our tribe is one of the most acculturated tribes in the country, and yet there are thousands of people who still speak cherokee. ceremonies that weve had since the beginning of time are still going on in a tribe as acculturated as ours is. our people are very tenacious, and it was that tenacity that i saw as a strength we could build on. courtesy of the wilma mankiller trust which sentence best integrates a direct quotation from the excerpt? ○ wilma mankiller notes the essential quality she feels brought the cherokee through the trail of tears: \they had unbelievable tenacity.\ ○ wilma mankiller boasts about the cherokee people’s abilities with language: \there are thousands of people who still speak cherokee.\ ○ wilma mankiller feels that cherokee people, despite being acculturated, \have a strength they can build on.\ ○ wilma mankiller credits her tribe’s survival to performing \ceremonies that we’ve had since the beginning of time.\

Explanation:

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

• Option 1: The quote "they had unbelievable tenacity" is about what helped through the Trail of Tears, but the original text's tenacity is linked to post - Trail of Tears positive things and building on strength, not just the Trail of Tears passage.
• Option 2: The original text doesn't mention "boasts about...abilities with language" and the quote about language is a side point, not the main focus of the excerpt.
• Option 3: The original text says the tribe is acculturated, people are tenacious, and tenacity is a strength to build on. The quote "have a strength they can build on" (while the wording is a bit adapted, the idea of building on strength from tenacity/acculturated state matches. The context of the original about acculturation and tenacity as a buildable strength aligns here.
• Option 4: The original says ceremonies are still going on, but credits survival to tenacity, not ceremonies. So this misrepresents the main point.

Answer:

A. Wilma Mankiller notes the essential quality she feels brought the Cherokee through the Trail of Tears: "they had unbelievable tenacity." (Wait, no, earlier analysis for option 3 was better. Wait, let's re - check. The original: "Our tribe is one of the most acculturated tribes in the country... Our people are very tenacious, and it was that tenacity that I saw as a strength we could build on." Option 3: "Wilma Mankiller feels that Cherokee people, despite being acculturated, 'have a strength they can build on.'" The quote in option 3 is a bit of a paraphrase - like adaptation, but the context of acculturation and buildable strength matches. Option 1's quote is about the Trail of Tears passage, but the original's tenacity is also about post - Trail positive things and building on it. However, the key is which quote is integrated correctly. The original has "they had unbelievable tenacity" as part of what she saw in communities post - Trail. Option 1's setup is about what brought them through the Trail, which is accurate as tenacity would have helped through the Trail. But the original also says tenacity is a strength to build on. Option 3's quote is a bit off - the original's direct quote related to buildable strength is "it was that tenacity that I saw as a strength we could build on", not "have a strength they can build on". Wait, maybe I made a mistake. Let's look at the options again.

Option 1: Quote is "they had unbelievable tenacity" - original has that. The setup is "notes the essential quality she feels brought the Cherokee through the Trail of Tears" - tenacity would be that quality. The original says "just as if you look at what happened after the Trail of Tears, you can look at some of the positive things... What I looked at in our communities is I saw among our people—they had unbelievable tenacity." So the tenacity was present during/after the Trail, helping them through and leading to positive post - Trail things. So option 1's integration: noting the quality (tenacity) that brought them through the Trail, with the quote "they had unbelievable tenacity" - that's accurate.

Option 3: The quote "have a strength they can build on" is not a direct quote from the excerpt. The direct quote in the excerpt related to buildable strength is "it was that tenacity that I saw as a strength we could build on". So option 3's quote is a paraphrase. Option 1's quote is a direct quote from the excerpt ("they had unbelievable tenacity") and the setup about the quality (tenacity) that brought them through the Trail is accurate as tenacity would have been essential for surviving the Trail.

So the correct answer is the first option: Wilma Mankiller notes the essential quality she feels brought the Cherokee through the Trail of Tears: "they had unbelievable tenacity."