Question

Read the excerpt from "For the Cherokee Phoenix.”

What will be our fate, God only knows. Georgia is extending her laws over us and at the same time stripping us of every right and privilege—agents of the United States are assiduous to induce us to quit our native homes. If this is not oppression, I know not what it is. Should we finally fall a sacrifice to the avarice of this fair, free and happy republic, as it is called, the sad news, no doubt will reach London, Paris, and Madrid as a stigma on its boasted character. Nay the mournful story will be reiterated in St. Petersburg. Oppressed Greece, too, will sympathize with us and drop a tear over our funeral pile.

In this excerpt, the author uses hypothetical reactions from other cities and countries. How does this help create pathos?

It reflects the author’s personal observations of other cities and countries and creates a sense of authority.
It provides a series of personal anecdotes from the author describing experiences with other cities and countries.
It helps create a sense of mourning experienced by those cities and countries over the oppression of the Cherokee.
It helps create a sense of urgency for those cities and countries to take action and free the Cherokee from oppression.


When the Constitution first became law in 1788,
New York and New Jersey had not ratified it.
New York and Virginia had not ratified it.
Rhode Island and Massachusetts ratified it.
Virginia and Delaware had ratified it.



Read the excerpt from "Rebuilding the Cherokee Nation.”

During this period of time when removal was being discussed, our own people, the Cherokees, became very bitterly divided politically. Part of our people wanted to remain here in the Southeast and throughout the rest of the Southeast and fight to the death for the right to remain in our homeland, and part of our people wanted to go on to Indian Territory, believing that the removal was inevitable, and that we should go on to Indian Territory, what is now Oklahoma, and resettle and rebuild our families and our communities there in Indian Territory.

Read how Luis paraphrased the excerpt.

Wilma Mankiller says that during this period of time when removal was discussed, her own people, the Cherokees, became very bitterly divided politically. Some wanted to fight to stay in their territory, but others believed the fight could not be won and they should go on to rebuild their communities in Indian Territory.

Courtesy of the Wilma Mankiller Trust

Which paraphrasing mistake has Luis made?

He misrepresented the speaker’s ideas.
He did not include all of the ideas from the original text.
He included exact wording from the original text.
He did not cite the source material.

Answer 1

1) It helps create a sense of mourning experienced by those cities and countries over the oppression of the Cherokee.

2) New York and Virginia had not ratified it.

3) He did not include all of the ideas from the original text.