SAT Question d4b07ce6: Answer & Explanation

While researching a topic, a student has taken the following notes:

• Shanawdithit (1801–1829) was a Beothuk cartographer (mapmaker).
• Her maps of Newfoundland’s Beothuk Lake outline both the lake and various points around the lake where encounters between the Indigenous Beothuk people and British colonists occurred.
• Her maps are notable for depicting the experiences the Beothuk had within the landscape.
• Contemporary Potawatomi cartographer Margaret Pearce: Indigenous cartography emphasizes “experienced space, or place, as opposed to the Western convention of depicting space as universal, homogenized, and devoid of human experience.”
• Pearce: “Indigenous cartographies are as diverse as Indigenous cultures, from Hawaiian performative cartographies to Navajo verbal maps and sand paintings.”

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Difficulty:Hard

The student wants to describe Shanawdithit’s approach and explain its significance. Which choice most effectively uses relevant information from the notes to accomplish this goal?

Shanawdithit’s maps are part of a broader tradition of Indigenous cartography that, according to Pearce, ranges from “Hawaiian performative cartographies to Navajo verbal maps and sand paintings.”

Shanawdithit mapped Beothuk Lake through significant encounters that occurred there, an approach described as “depicting space as universal [and] homogenized.”

According to Pearce, Indigenous cartography, such as Shanawdithit’s maps of Beothuk Lake, emphasizes “experienced space, or place,” with a variety of approaches that reflect the diversity of Indigenous cultures.

By depicting experiences of the Beothuk that occurred around Beothuk Lake, Shanawdithit’s maps reflect Indigenous cartography’s emphasis on “experienced space, or place” rather than the landscape alone.

SAT Question d4b07ce6: Rhetorical Synthesis answer and explanation

Explanation

Why the other choices are wrong