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"The writings of Eugenio Fernandez Mendez clearly exemplify this tradition, and many supporters of Puerto Rico's commonwealth status share the same universalizing orientation."
I think E is the correct answer for Q2.
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5. It can be inferred from the passage that the "colonialist" approach is so called because its practitioners

(A) support Puerto Rico's commonwealth status
(B) have a strong tradition of cultural accommodation
(C) emphasize the class relations at work in both Puerto Rican and North American history
(D) pose the clash of national cultures as an absolute polarity in which each culture is understood as static and undifferentiated
(E) regard the political relation of Puerto Rico to the United States as a significant factor in the experience of Puerto Ricans...correct


There are only two parts in the paragraph has correlation with the answers….
In the beginning of the paragraph2

In contrast, the "colonialist" approach of island-based writers such as Eduardo Seda-Bonilla, Manuel Maldonado-Denis, and Luis Nieves-Falcon tends to view assimilation as the forced loss of national culture in an unequal contest with imposed foreign values.

In the beginning of the paragraph3

This cultural and political emphasis is appropriate, but the colonialist thinkers (the "colonialist" approach of island-based writers )misdirect it, overlooking the class relations at work in both Puerto Rican and North American history….
-so the “colonialist thinkers” overlook the class relations at work in both Puerto Rican and North American history….

How can we infer, just from the two sentences above, that the "colonialist" approach is so called because its practitioners “regard the political relation of Puerto Rico to the United States as a significant factor in the experience of Puerto Ricans”

Or maybe its because that the meaning of “colonialist thinkers” is “thinkers deem colonialist—or say assimilation-- as the forced loss of national culture, and so they’re not the supporter to "colonialist" approach….
-thus the view to those "colonialist" approach’s practitioners(supporter to "colonialist" approach) is opposite to those “colonialist thinkers” and "the colonialist approach of island-based writers"….so they ”regard” the political relation of Puerto Rico to the United States “as a significant factor” in the experience of Puerto Ricans…..???
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Q5 of this passgae: Why is D not the correct answer and E is?
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