Artistic and Cultural Patrimony in Mali

Answer choices

1. A

   Detail-Sentence Bait2% picked this

   draw attention to the role of museums in preserving

   The author showed no desire to call attention to museums. The author was just saying that Mali could have allowed excavations, taxed them, and put that money back into the cultural preservation ecosystem by using that money for the national museum. The author was trying to show how her suggested alternative approach would have been a net win for the cultural preservation concerns of Mali. On Local Purpose, there is usually a trap answer that is baiting us with language from with the detail claim itself. Meanwhile, the correct answer usually sounds more like the language from the preceding claim or two.

   2%
2. B

   Opposite0% picked this

   praise one of the Malian government's past policies concerning

   The author isn't praising a policy enacted by the Malian government. The author is proposing a policy that should have been enacted by the Malian government.

   0%
3. C

   Correct78% picked this

   present one part of a more pragmatic approach to regulating the trade

   Why this is right

   The final paragraph is where the author sells us on the idea of an alternate universe where Mali had approached its terra-cotta sculptures differently. Suppose they had done X. Suppose they had done Y. It wouldn't have been perfect, but wouldn't it have been better than what happened? The idea that it's a "more pragmatic approach" means that it's realistic. Sure, ideally Mali like to have no amateur excavations of their precious terra-cotta cultural heirlooms. But ... if they're being realistic / pragmatic, they realize the excavations by non-professionals are going to happen either way. They could try to regulate it and raise revenue from it. The tax on exported objects was one component of the suggestions the author was making in the final paragraph.

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

   78%
4. D

   Unsupported Relationship8% picked this

   suggest a means of giving people who excavate cultural antiquities incentive to

   The passage doesn't give us any reason to think that paying an export tax on the sculpture you just dug up is going to give you an incentive to keep careful records. This answer is just doing a Word Salad of the first and second halves of this sentence. This sentence is saying that Mali could have had two wins, by choosing to allow and regulate excavations: - they could require that each object be recorded and registered (so that Mali's historians can keep careful records) - they could charge an export tax This answer is making it seem like an export tax would encourage the payer to keep more careful records, which is a new meaning created by jumbling these ideas together.

   8%
5. E

   Unsupported Relationship11% picked this

   highlight a flaw in the UNESCO

   There's no relationship in the passage between the UNESCO doctrine and any export tax. This answer is just baiting people with a keyword from the previous sentence.

   11%