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The passage suggests that "the indeterminancy of radical translation" (line 25)

(A) undermines the transmission of cultural meaning between the generations of a culture
(B) fails to prove that outsiders like anthropologists and writers should forego attempting to understand foreign cultures
(C) underscores the importance of the transmission of a particular language to the memory of its corresponding culture
(D) suggests that certain cultural objects can be focused on to understand a culture in non-linguistic terms
(E) complicates on occasion the entry of an individual into a community

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It can be inferred from that the passage that Ngugi views Quine’s thesis of the indeterminacy of radical translation as

(A) a derivation of Ngugi’s own theories concerning the importance of language
(B) correct in its emphasis on language learning
(C) dismissive of dialectical materialism’s explanation of the origins of meaning
(D) opposed to the notion of language as a determinant of cultural identity
(E) an accurate but superfluous expression of a basic concept of linguistics

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Which of the following persuasive devices is NOT used in the passage

(A) An example of dialectical argument
(B) The contrast of different points of views
(C) The repetition of key ideas and expressions
(D) The citation of experimentally-derived evidence
(E) Evaluative or judgmental words