SECTION 2 TIME—25 MINUTES 18 QUESTIONS DIRECTIONS

11.

Information in the passage supports which of the

following statements about many European ethnic

groups in the nineteenth-century United States?

(A) They emphasized economic interests as a way of

mobilizing constituents behind certain issues.

(B) They conceived of their own ethnicity as being

primordial in nature.

(C) They created cultural traditions that fused United

States symbols with those of their countries of

origin.

(D) They de-emphasized the cultural components of

their communities in favor of political interests.

(E) They organized formal community groups

designed to promote a renaissance of ethnic

history and culture.

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