Q2

[rachue]

Hi,

Can someone help me understand why D is correct here over C? Thanks.

[ohthatpatrick]

I think you may have just misread the answer key. C is the correct answer (supported by lines 54-55).

Let me know if this absolves your concern or if you still have a question.

[shirando21]

why can't D be correct then ?

[andrea.devas]

I don't understand why (C) is the correct answer choice here since I don't get where in the passage it tells us what " tradition is normally used to mean" Can anyone shed some insight here please?

just an FYI I choose (A).

[sherminfaith]

A is tempting. I guess the best explanation is that FWS didn't ignore the way Alaskan Natives used the word, they simply decided that they were overruling it for their own definition, which takes legal precedence.

C pairs up with the phrase "It defies common sense to define tradition in such a way that only these traditions that were exercised...blah blah." What is "common sense"? Opinions and attitudes people generally consider to be true. People generally consider it to be true that tradition means something other than what the court defines it as.

D is tempting, but actually an opposite answer choice. It says that the FWS's definition led them to describe a practice as being tradition when it WASN'T really traditional. This is contrary to what happened. The court decided that FWS was INCORRECT in saying that seal hunting WASN'T traditional. (Caps added for key word emphasis)

[miranda.cherkas]

I originally answered D instead of the correct answer C for this question, but I'm trying to figure out why it is C. I initially ruled out C because of the how the passage says that the meaning of "traditional" is ambiguous, so I thought, "well, hm, there isn't a 'what the term traditional is normally understood to mean'." However, when I look back through the text, I see in paragraph 2 that traditional is associated with "long-standing". If you go back to line 46 about "strained," you can see that "within living memory" is a "strained" or limiting interpretation of "long-standing".
Also, like the poster above, now I see that D actually says the opposite of what we want it to say since the FWS used "traditional" to describe a practice that SHOULD have been allowed instead of SHOULD NOT.

[ohthatpatrick]

I couldn't tell if you were still unresolved about (C), but it is supported by line 54-57, and the previous poster did a great job of explaining how "defies common sense" is a decent match for "inconsistent with normal understanding".

[bswise2]

I eliminated C because lines 44-45 state that the court "reconsidered what constituted a traditional item under the statute." If they reconsidered what was considered a "traditional item," how is C correct? The testimony given in line 41 is what changed their minds about how to establish what is "traditional." Isn't the whole point that they broadened the definition? Not that they corrected an inconsistent definition?

[ohthatpatrick]

The court disagreed with how FWS defined "traditional",
so the court reconsidered/redefined how we should define "traditional".

The FWS defined "traditional" as "if it hasn't been done in living memory, it's not traditional"

The court rejected that idea ... why?
in part, because defining "traditional" the way FWS did "defies common sense".

[jacob.k.q]

I think the lesson to be learned from this question is that the support for an answer which refers to a specific line (line 46 in this case) can sometimes come as many as ten lines after said line (54-56). I got this one right but only by POE. Otherwise, I could not find support for C the first time around.