Katherine Dunham

Answer choices

1. A

   Too Strong: more than any other6% picked this

   They were more similar to dance forms used in Pacific-island cultures than to any other

   We have no way of supporting this extreme claim that the traditional Caribbean dance forms were more similar to Pacific-island culture dance forms than to any other known dance form. In fact, we sort of have negative support for this, since these dance forms had "their origins in African culture". Africa is a continent, not an island, and it's bordered by the Atlantic and Indian Oceans, so this answer definitely isn't using 'Pacific-island' as a proxy for Africa.

   6%
2. B

   Too Strong: first use20% picked this

   They represented the first use of the technique of dance-isolation within a culture

   Nothing in our available support text gives us a way to support this extreme claim that the traditional Caribbean dance forms were the first to ever use dance-isolation. - traditional Caribbean - origins in African culture - extreme physical demands - other social scientists probably wouldn't have actually engaged in learning these dance forms

   20%
3. C

   Out of Support Window: ballet9% picked this

   They shared certain rhythmic characteristics with the dance forms employed in

   Nothing in our available support text gives us a way to support this claim that the traditional Caribbean dance forms had any commonalities with dance forms in North American ballets. - traditional Caribbean - origins in African culture - extreme physical demands - other social scientists probably wouldn't have actually engaged in learning these dance forms

   9%
4. D

   Out of Support Window: popular dances4% picked this

   They had already influenced certain popular dances in

   Nothing in our available support text gives us a way to support this claim that the traditional Caribbean dance forms had already influenced popular dances in North America (the passage makes it seem like when Dunham comes back, she spreads the good word about these dances and that's when they start to influence North America). - traditional Caribbean - origins in African culture - extreme physical demands - other social scientists probably wouldn't have actually engaged in learning these dance forms

   4%
5. E

   Correct62% picked this

   They were influenced by the traditions of

   Why this is right

   This is the only answer to reinforce any of our support text. - traditional Caribbean - origins in African culture - extreme physical demands - other social scientists probably wouldn't have actually engaged in learning these dance forms Since these traditional Caribbean dance forms had their origins in African culture, we can definitely say the African culture influenced them. And Africa is definitely not the Caribbean, so African culture qualifies as non-Caribbean culture. There is only one sentence in the whole passage with the keywords of 1935 and "dance forms" (the first sentence of the 3rd paragraph), and this answer is being supported purely by that sentence. When we say "find a Support Window and then be stubborn about making the correct answer come from that Support Window", we mean questions/answers like this one. They're testing us on the sentence they're pointing us to! They found a goofy way to restate something said within that sentence. The wrong answers just pull in verbatim words / phrases from random parts of the passage. The more we're convinced that the correct answer has to use the available support text, the more likely we are to "do the work" of thinking about how the intentionally-confusing wording of this answer choice could match up with our support text.

   Skill tested: Locate Detail · how this choice captures the passage's function is the move to repeat next time.

   62%