Reading Comprehension: Inference Questions
What may be inferred about Navajo culture and beliefs?
Incorrect.
[[snippet]]Although this example of Navajo jokes involves animals, we cannot infer that animals always play an important role in Navajo humor.
Incorrect.
[[snippet]]We can infer from the passage that men and women have specific gender roles in Navajo society, but we do not know if they are patriarchal (i.e., male dominated) not.
Incorrect.
[[snippet]]This joke makes fun of ideas that do not make sense with Navajo cultural assumptions. Therefore, the joke reinforces, not questions, those assumptions.
Incorrect.
[[snippet]]The passage states that the notion of a human acting like a bird contradicts a basic idea of Navajo culture.
Good job!
[[snippet]]We know that the Navajo find concepts that contradict the natural order funny, so we can infer that their culture believes in a well-defined natural order.
