Multiple choice

Directions: This question presents a sentence, all or part of which is underlined. Beneath the sentence you will find five ways of phrasing the underlined part. The first of these repeats the original; the other four are different. If you think the original is best, choose the first answer; otherwise choose one of the others.

Some forest dwelling tribes in Indonesia, like some tribes in Africa, have matrilineal societies in which females take on rights and responsibilities like heading the tribe, inheriting family wealth, and to cultivate the fields, and rearing children as well.

  1. rights and responsibilities like heading the tribe, inheriting family wealth, and to cultivate the fields

  2. rights, and responsibilities of heading the tribe, inheriting family wealth, cultivating the fields

  3. roles that confer rights and responsibilities like heading the tribe, inheriting family wealth, cultivating the fields

  4. roles that confer rights and responsibilities like heading the tribe, inheriting family wealth, cultivating

  5. rights and responsibilities like heading the tribe, inheriting family wealth, cultivating the fields

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E Correct answer
Explanation

Correct. The option removes the error of parallelism by using 'cultivating' to parallel 'heading', 'inheriting' and 'rearing' and the error of redundancy by deleting the conjunction.