Evaluating Evidence in an Informational Text: Mastery Test

Which statement is the most relevant evidence in support of changing the name to "Denali"?

• McKinley was a United States president.

• The mountain is contained within a recognized U.S. national park.

• Various people wanted to adopt the name beginning in at least 1916.

• At least nine Native American groups have had names for the mountain

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CCSS.RL.8.1

CCSS.RI.7.1

CCSS.RI.8.1

CCSS.RI.8.8

CCSS.RL.9-10.1

What support does Thomas Riggs provide for the counterclaim that Mt. McKinley should not be renamed?

• The name "Denali" is not descriptive.

  
  

• "Mount McKinley" is the original name of the mountain.

• Nobody knows what the word "Denali" means.

• "Mount McKinley" is easier to pronounce than "Denali."

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CCSS.RI.9-10.8

CCSS.W.9-10.1

CCSS.W.9-10.1B

Consider this detail from the paragraph 12:

According to University of Alaska linguist James Kari, the groups to the north and west of the mountain (and Alaska Range) use words that translate to "the tall one."

Which claim from the article could this detail support?

• In 1930, Sheldon's The Wilderness of Denali is published.

• But the official name of the mountain remained Mount McKinley.

• "McKinley" is incompatible with the Athabaskan worldview because they rarely name places after people.

• "Mount McKinley National Park" officially prevailed after its legislation is signed into law on February 26, 1917.

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CCSS.RL.8.1

CCSS.RI.7.2

CCSS.RI.8.2

CCSS.RL.11-12.2

CCSS.RL.9-10.2

Which of the following serves as relevant evidence supporting the claim that Mt. McKinley can not be given a specific indigenous name?

• the U.S. government has no right to bestow indigenous names.

• the mountain has had at least nine indigenous names.

• indigenous names for the mountain are lost to history.

• most indigenous people believe the site should be unnamed.

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CCSS.RL.8.1

CCSS.RI.7.1

CCSS.RI.8.1

CCSS.RI.8.8

CCSS.RL.9-10.1

Read paragraph 1 of the excerpt. Which of these is the main point of this introduction?

• The change of the mountain's name marks its return to indigenous ownership.

• The National Park Service was established more than a century ago.

• The change of the mountain's name has more than a superficial significance.

• The National Park Service has the authority to change the names of parks.

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CCSS.RI.9-10.1

CCSS.RI.9-10.2