Preserving Ethnic Identity

Answer choices

1. A

   Wrong Target for Objection6% picked this

   point out a weakness in their hypothesis about the strength of community ties

   The author points out the weakness in the 4th paragraph. We can't say that quote is brought up in order to point out a weakness because the quote itself doesn't point to the weakness. Our author isn't objecting to the claim that Japanese Americans retained a stronger-than-average sense of community. Our author objects to the causal explanation that it's a preexisting sense of "peoplehood". She's like, "That's a cop out, guys. It's hard to prove that they have more peoplehood than any other ethnic group. Do your job and figure out which specific factors are helping to sustain their community's cohesion more than average."

   6%
2. B

   Correct64% picked this

   show how they support their claim about the notability of community cohesion

   Why this is right

   It's hard to argue with this answer. It's lovable because it reinforces language in the claim that comes right before the detail (that's how 85% of Local Purpose correct answers work). And it's basically just giving us wording from that previous claim verbatim. It's not even doing the normal trick of complicating it with synonyms. This answer says that it's supporting their claim about the notability of community cohesion of Japanese Americans. Right before the quote it says: "Fugita and O'Brien maintain that the community cohesion of Japanese Americans is notable not for its initial intensity but because [quote]".

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

   64%
3. C

   Wrong Paragraph3% picked this

   indicate how they demonstrate the high degree of adaptation of Japanese Americans to

   The 2nd paragraph is stressing how the Japanese Americans adapted / assimilated to U.S. culture. The 3rd paragraph, and the quote we're being asked about, is stressing how they nevertheless retained a strong sense of ethnic identity and cohesion.

   3%
4. D

   Wrong Objection: inaccurate comparison3% picked this

   suggest that they have inaccurately compared Japanese Americans to other ethnic groups in

   The author never suggests that this quote is wrong, in terms of its comparison between the ethnic cohesion of Japanese Americans and that of other ethnic groups.

   3%
5. E

   Wrong Role24% picked this

   emphasize their contention that the Japanese American sense of peoplehood extended beyond local

   Although the end of the 3rd paragraph does mention that the "sense of peoplehood extended beyond local and family ties", this quote isn't emphasizing that peoplehood went beyond local and family ties. It's emphasizing that the Japanese Americans are more involved in their own ethnic community than are other immigrants at a similar spot in their life cycle of assimilating into the U.S.

   24%