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Para 1- study of slavery in the United States- Gutman argues that one must look to the Black family and the slaves' extended kinship system to understand how crucial achievements
Para 2- Gutman uses quantifiable data, Gutman emphasizes the preference for stable monogamy and points out what stable monogamy meant for the slaves' cultural heritage
Para 3- Gutman's findings- cousins rarely married; significance of study
1. According to the passage, Fogel, Engerman, Genovese, and Gutman have done which of the following? I. Discounted the influence of plantation owners on slaves' achievements. - incorrect, But unlike these historians, Gutman gives plantation owners little credit for these achievements.
II. Emphasized the achievements of slaves. - correct, Herbert Gutman, like Fogel, Engerman, and Genovese, has rightly stressed the slaves' achievements
III. Pointed out the prevalence of the two-parent household among slaves. - correct,
In less conclusive fashion Fogel, Engerman, and Genovese had already indicated the predominance of two-parent households
IV. Showed the connection between stable monogamy and slaves' cultural heritage. - incorrect, only Gutman did
(C) II and III only
2. With which of the following statements regarding the resources that historians ought to use would the author of the passage be most likely to agree? (C) Historians should rely exclusively on data that can be quantified. - incorrect, 'exclusively' makes it incorrect
(D) Historians ought to make use of data that can be quantified. - Correct
Gutman recreates the family and extended kinship structure mainly through ingenious use of what any historian should draw upon, quantifiable data, derived in this case mostly from plantation birth registers.
3. Which of the following statements about the formation of the Black heritage of folklore, music, and religious expression is best supported by the information presented in the passage? (D) The heritage was not formed out of the experiences of only a single generation of slaves.
Gutman argues convincingly that the stability of the Black family encouraged the transmission of-and so was crucial in sustaining- the Black heritage of folklore, music, and religious expression from one generation to another, a heritage that slaves were continually fashioning out of their African and American experiences.
4. It can be inferred from the passage that, of the following, the most probable reason why a historian of slavery might be interested in studying the type of plantations mentioned is that this type would (D) furnish the historian with the opportunity to discover the kind of marital commitment that slaves themselves chose to have
Although Gutman admits that forced separation by sale was frequent, he shows that the slaves' preference, revealed most clearly on plantations where sale was infrequent, was very much for stable monogamy.
5. According to the passage, all of the following are true of the West African rules governing marriage mentioned EXCEPT: (A) The rules were derived from rules governing fictive kinship arrangements. - Correct, no rules were derived from "fictive" kinship arrangements
(B) The rules forbade marriages between close kin. - incorrect, This taboo against cousins' marrying is important,
(C) The rules are mentioned in Herbert Gutman's study. - incorrect
(D) The rules were not uniform in all respects from one West African tribe to another. - incorrect, Gutman suggests, may have derived from West African rules governing marriage, which, though they differed from one tribal group to another,
(E) The rules have been considered to be a possible source of slaves' marriage preferences. - incorrect, Gutman suggests, may have derived from West African rules governing marriage, which, though they differed from one tribal group to another,
6. Which of the following statements concerning the marriage practices of plantation owners during the period of Black slavery in the United States can most logically be inferred from the information in the passage? (E) Plantation owners often married their cousins. - Correct
Gutman discovers that cousins rarely married, an exogamous tendency that contrasted sharply with the endogamy practiced by the plantation owners.
7. W.hich of the following best describes the organization of the passage? (A) The author compares and contrasts the work of several historians and then discusses areas for possible new research. - incorrect, the author compares only in first para and he does not discuss areas for possible new research
(B) The author presents his thesis, draws on the work of several historians for evidence to support his thesis, and concludes by reiterating his thesis.- incorrect, the author does not present his thesis
(C) The author describes some features of a historical study and then uses those features to put forth his own argument. - incorrect, the author does not put his own argument
(D) The author summarizes a historical study, examines two main arguments from the study, and then shows how the arguments are potentially in conflict with one another. - no two main arguments are examined
(E) The author presents the general argument of a historical study, describes the study in more detail, and concludes with a brief judgment of the study's value. - Correct
8. Which of the following is the most appropriate title for the passage, based on its content? (A) The Influence of Herbert Gutman on Historians of Slavery in the United States - incorrect, influence of HG on other historians is not discussed
(B) Gutman's Explanation of How Slaves Could Maintain a Cultural Heritage and Develop a Communal Consciousness - Correct
(C) Slavery in the United States: New Controversy About an Old Subject - incorrect, too broad and there is no controversy
(D) The Black Heritage of Folklore, Music, and Religious Expression: Its Growing Influence - incorrect, misses on HG
(E) The Black Family and Extended Kinship Structure: How They Were Important for the Freed Slave- incorrect, misses on HG