|Question 11Verbal

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In 1900, in collaboration with Cherokee cultural historian Will West Long, white ethnographer James Mooney assembled a collection of traditional oral stories related to him by Cherokee elders. Based on their content, Mooney categorized them into various genres: historical traditions, tales of animals, and so on. Noting that some stories feature detailed descriptions of geographic locations in the Cherokee homeland, Mooney demarcated those as a genre he referred to as "wonder stories." While Long and Mooney's collaboration proved valuable as an act of cultural preservation, it is important to bear in mind that Cherokee people are not known to have applied genre divisions to their stories before Mooney's work. There is, therefore, ______
Which choice most logically completes the text?
some reason to think that other traditional stories that the Cherokee elders did not share with Mooney would not have met Mooney's criterion for classifying them as "wonder stories" despite including geographical information.
A
no evidence for Mooney's conclusion that the Cherokee elders who recounted the stories believed that the geographic details included in some stories were accurate descriptions of the Cherokee homeland.
B
considerable uncertainty about whether Mooney's classifications of the stories shared by the Cherokee elders were influenced by Long's views about which features of a story are most indicative of the genre to which the story belongs.
C
no reason to believe that the Cherokee elders who provided the stories would have agreed with Mooney that the inclusion of geographical specificity in some stories marked those stories as different in kind from other stories.
D