¡¡¡¡useful methodology because
¡¡¡¡£¨A£© life stories provide deeper insights into a culture
¡¡¡¡than the hypothesizing of academics who are not
¡¡¡¡members of that culture
¡¡¡¡£¨B£© life stories can be collected easily and they are not
¡¡¡¡subject to invalid interpretations
¡¡¡¡£¨C£© ethnologists have a limited number of research
¡¡¡¡methods from which to choose
¡¡¡¡£¨D£© life stories make it easy to distinguish between the
¡¡¡¡important and unimportant features of a culture
¡¡¡¡£¨E£© the collection of life stories does not require a
¡¡¡¡culturally knowledgeable investigator
¡¡¡¡4. Information in the passage suggests that which of
¡¡¡¡the following may be a possible way to eliminate
¡¡¡¡bias in the editing of life stories£¿
¡¡¡¡£¨A£© Basing all inferences made about the culture
¡¡¡¡on an ethnological theory
¡¡¡¡£¨B£© Eliminating all of the emotion-laden information
¡¡¡¡reported by the informant
¡¡¡¡£¨C£© Translating the informant's words into the
¡¡¡¡researcher's language
¡¡¡¡£¨D£© Reducing the number of questions and carefully
¡¡¡¡specifying the content of the questions that the
¡¡¡¡investigator can ask the informant
¡¡¡¡£¨E£© Reporting all of the information that the informant
¡¡¡¡provides regardless of the investigator's personal
¡¡¡¡opinion about its intrinsic value
¡¡¡¡5. The primary purpose of the passage as a whole is to
¡¡¡¡£¨A£© question an explanation
¡¡¡¡£¨B£© correct a misconception
¡¡¡¡£¨C£© critique a methodology
¡¡¡¡£¨D£© discredit an idea
¡¡¡¡£¨E£© clarify an ambiguity
¡¡¡¡6. It can be inferred from the passage that a characteristic
¡¡¡¡of the ethnological research on Native Americans
¡¡¡¡conducted during the nineteenth century was the use
¡¡¡¡of which of the following£¿
¡¡¡¡£¨A£© Investigators familiar with the culture under study
¡¡¡¡£¨B£© A language other than the informant's for recording
¡¡¡¡life stories
¡¡¡¡£¨C£© Life stories as the ethnologist's primary source of
¡¡¡¡information
¡¡¡¡£¨D£© Complete transcriptions of informants' descriptions
¡¡¡¡of tribal beliefs
¡¡¡¡£¨E£© Stringent guidelines for the preservation of cultural
¡¡¡¡data
¡¡
