Q20

[ccheng]

I'd really appreciate if someone could explain why answer choice (C) is wrong?
Is "U.S. historiography in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries" too broad for the main point? And the word "conflict" is too extreme?
Thanks very much.

[maryadkins]

Good question!

(C), while not incorrect, is just too narrow. check out the last paragraph. The author expresses a pretty strong opinion about what was going on: the transnationalism was still a kind of nation-building. (C) doesn't mention any of this at all!

(D) on the contrary gets at this main idea while incorporating the first part of the passage.

As for the others...

(A) is out of scope.
(B) is just not supported by what the passage says.
(E) is about the wrong people.

Hope this helps!