Question

Read the excerpt from "Rebuilding the Cherokee Nation.”

Our children go to public school systems in Oklahoma, and they see teachers that don’t look like them, don’t reflect who they are as a people. We’ve always been acculturated to believe that the BIA (Bureau of Indian Affairs) or the Indian Health Service or somebody else had better ideas for us than we ourselves had, and so trusting our own thinking . . . is the single most important task. . .

Read Noah’s paraphrase of the excerpt.

Wilma Mankiller says that Cherokee children go to public school systems in Oklahoma and see teachers who don’t look like them. Cherokee people have been acculturated to believe that the Bureau of Indian Affairs or the Indian Health Service have better ideas for them than they have for themselves. Mankiller says that the single most important task is to get the Cherokee to trust their own thinking.

Courtesy of the Wilma Mankiller Trust

Which mistake did Noah make in his paraphrase?

He matched the source material too closely.
He did not give proper credit to the source.
He misrepresented the author’s ideas.
He made the ideas in the text more complex.

Answer 1

He matched the source material too closely.

Noah's wording and sentence structure remain nearly identical to the original, so the paraphrase is too close and doesn't sufficiently put the ideas into new language.