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Question

Each community has its own specific huipil designs. Without saying a word, a woman’s huipil could tell you which community she came from.

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In the 1980s, the army targeted women wearing huipiles with symbols that associated them with communities where the army thought rebels were based. To protect themselves, many Maya women disguised the symbols on their huipiles so that the army could not tell which communities they were from.

What inference can you make based on these sentences?

Huipiles are important to the culture and history of Maya communities.

Maya women stopped wearing huipiles when the army started targeting women wearing huipiles.

Huipiles were the uniform of the communities that rebelled against the army.

Maya women protected themselves by wearing huipiles that expressed their culture.

Answer 1

The most appropriate inference based on these sentences is:

Huipiles are important to the culture and history of Maya communities.

This inference is supported by the information that huipiles have specific designs linked to communities and can convey which community a woman belongs to without needing to speak. The fact that women disguised the symbols to protect themselves indicates the significance of huipiles in their identity and culture. The other options either exaggerate or misinterpret the details provided in the text.