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Question 10

Item 10

(1) Every second Monday in October, federal and some state agencies, banks, schools, and some businesses close their doors to celebrate Columbus Day. (2) The holiday, which commemorates Christopher Columbus’s landing in the Bahamas on October 12, 1492, was created to honor Italian American heritage in 1792, and was declared a federal holiday in 1937. (3) Berkeley, California, was the first city to adopt Indigenous Peoples’ Day in 1991, and dozens of municipalities, cities, and even a handful of states have followed suit. (4) A few celebrate this new holiday along with Columbus Day, but most celebrate it instead of Columbus Day. (5) This piecemeal celebration is not enough, though. (6) To truly honor the indigenous population of the United States, Indigenous Peoples’ Day should be recognized as a federal holiday.

The writer wants to add a sentence after sentence 2 that previews the main line of reasoning in the paragraph. Which of the following best achieves this goal?

A.The Knights of Columbus, along with Italian American leader Generoso Pope, were instrumental in lobbying to have Columbus Day declared a federal holiday.

B.When President Franklin Delano Roosevelt declared Columbus Day a holiday, it was celebrated on October 12 of every year until 1971.

C.However, several states—Alaska, Florida, Hawaii, Oregon, South Dakota, and Vermont—do not celebrate Columbus Day at all.

D.In the last few decades, however, a new holiday has been celebrated on that second Monday in October: Indigenous Peoples’ Day.

E.Instead of Columbus Day, however, people in Hawaii celebrate Discoverers’ Day on the second Monday in October.

Answer 1

Dear Student,

The second sentence informs us about why Columbus day is observed and the thrid sentence tells us that few cities like Berkley and California started celebrating Indigenous people day on the same day which observes Columbus day.

Therfore to bridge the change in events, a transition staetement would be best suited. Thus, the correct choice would be option D. which tells us that in the past few decades a new holiday has been celebrated on the second monday in october.

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