Multiple choice

Directions: In the following question part of the text has been deleted. The deleted text has been indicated as (…..). From the given options, select the one that best fits in place of the space marked (….).

There is a saying (…) that the only good Indian is a dead Indian. In the very teeth of that, and in spite of the fact that he was neither very good, nor an Indian - nor in any sense dead - men called Grant Imsen Good Indian to his face; and if he resented the title, his resentment was never made manifest - perhaps because he had grown up with the name, he rather liked it when he was a little fellow, and with custom had come to take it as a matter of course.

  1. and if it is not purely Western, it is at least purely American

  2. and very truly so, as has been time and again proved

  3. throughout the world, more so in the West

  4. indeed far from true but believed to be true

  5. that survived through the medieval times

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A Correct answer
Explanation

 We are talking about red Indians here; they belong to the America. So, the saying being predominantly American fits in. Therefore, (1) is the correct answer.