Question

Read the excerpt from "Rebuilding the Cherokee Nation.”

Another thing that I saw was great leadership in our communities, and leadership again, it’s kind of like the way I talked about looking at government. Our government may have not looked like the US government, but it’s a government and the leadership we saw in our communities may not have looked like leadership that you see in the external world, but the leadership existed. You could find the leadership just by seeing who people go to when there’s a time of crisis in the community.

Courtesy of the Wilma Mankiller Trust

Which sentence best integrates a direct quotation from the excerpt?

In Mankiller’s view, the leaders of the Cherokee Nation do not look like the leaders from “the US government or the external world.”
Unlike the leaders of the US government, the Cherokee leaders are the ones “who people go to when there’s a time of crisis.”
Mankiller states that in the Cherokee Nation, “the leadership existed,” even though the leadership may not have looked like leadership that people see in the external world.
Mankiller explains that Cherokee leadership looked different from other governments because “you could find the leadership just by seeing who people go to when there’s a time of crisis in the community.”

Answer 1

Mankiller explains that Cherokee leadership looked different from other governments because “you could find the leadership just by seeing who people go to when there’s a time of crisis in the community.”

Reason: This sentence uses a full, accurate direct quotation from the excerpt and integrates it smoothly into the writer’s attribution.