Throughout the 1940’s, the director Orson Welles was considered something of ______in the motion picture industry, as famous for his highly______personality as his inimitable cinematic genius.

(A) Provide specific examples of the problems in historiography
(B) Describe some of the criteria employed in determining what makes a nation
(C) Question the adequacy of the historiographers’ present interpretation of spatial categories
(D) Propose solutions to some the problems in historiography
(E) Make general statements without reference to specific examples

(A) a political conflict over spatial boundaries which can only be resolved through the input of historiographers
(B) a chorus of conflicting voices whose dissonances cannot be resolved, but to which historiographers must listen
(C) a field that complicates the assignment of geographic boundaries to the extent that such boundaries can never be resolved
(D) a conflict between nations whose sovereignty historiographers have the duty to assess
(E) a history of conflicts over spatial demarcation which are ultimately irrelevant to the truth of history