In the early nineteenth century, some Euro-American farmers in the northeastern United States used agricultural techniques developed by the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) people centuries earlier, but it seems that few of those farmers had actually seen Haudenosaunee farms firsthand. Barring the possibility of several farmers of the same era independently developing techniques that the Haudenosaunee people had already invented, these facts most strongly suggest that____.

Which choice most logically completes the text?

A short passage explicit the information to analyze, and interpret the main idea.

Special attention to the facts and details draws out the main idea.

Can you summarize what you’ve understood in the above steps?

Choice A is incorrect because it does not logically follow from the information given in the passage.The passage discusses how Euro-American farmers used techniques developed by the Haudenosaunee despite not having seen their farms firsthand, suggesting the techniques were indeed adopted and likely suited for the crops being cultivated.

the crops typically cultivated by Euro-American farmers in the northeastern United States were not well suited to Haudenosaunee farming techniques.

Choice B is correct because it logically explains how the Euro-American farmers could have adopted the Haudenosaunee agricultural techniques despite not having direct exposure to Haudenosaunee farms.

those farmers learned the techniques from other people who were more directly influenced by Haudenosaunee practices.

Choice C is incorrect because it does not logically follow from the information provided in the text. The passage states that Euro-American farmers in the early nineteenth century used techniques developed by the Haudenosaunee, suggesting that they recognized the benefits of these techniques well before the late nineteenth century.

Euro-American farmers only began to recognize the benefits of Haudenosaunee farming techniques late in the nineteenth century.

Choice D is incorrect because it does not logically follow from the information provided in the passage. The passage discusses Euro-American farmers in the northeastern United States adopting Haudenosaunee agricultural techniques, despite not having seen Haudenosaunee farms firsthand.

Haudenosaunee farming techniques were widely used in regions outside the northeastern United States.

Correct sentence

Those farmers learned the techniques from other people who were more directly influenced by Haudenosaunee practices.

Option

B

Can you summarize what you’ve understood in the above steps?