Q7

[Lsatlover4eva]

I understand that B is correct, but can anyne please explain why D is incorrect? It seems to me that the whole passage culminates to say that Mali should have handled the terra cotta issue differently, which is what D says.

Thanks.

[ManhattanPrepLSAT1]

Great passage and it brings back memories of a wonderful trip. I visited the city of Djenne a few years back and the Great Mosque there is incredibly beautiful.

The author's thesis arrives at the very end of the passage in the form of a question, with an implied answer. The author believes that the system for preserving and recording artifacts outlined in the final paragraph would have been better than what actually happened. The author concedes that such a system "may well have been less well conducted and less informative than proper, professionally administered excavations by accredited archeologists." Thus, answer choice (B) correctly describes the author's point that flexible solutions are required in this case.

Incorrect Answers
(A) is too narrow in scope. While true, this is not the author's main point, but rather information presented inside the author's argument.
(C) is contradicted. The author believes that international bodies are part of the solution, not part of the problem.
(D) is contradicted. The author believes that flexible solutions are required, and this includes a system less well conducted than proper, professionally accredited archeologists.
(E) is unsupported. This mixes up the UNESCO doctrine with the additional measures taken by some countries to strengthen the UNESCO doctrine, neither of which is the author's main point.

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