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Greenrock National Park’s wolf population has been stable for years, but several large packs of coyotes, ananimal new to the park, moved in late in the fall. The wolves prey mainly on the park’s thriving elk population.This winter, the coyotes have primarily been hunting animals that are not prey for wolves. However, largescavenging packs of coyotes have often driven wolves away from the wolves’ kills, which probably explains why_______________.Which of the following most logically completes the passage?

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This passage is adapted from material published in 1998.In the book China Men (1980), Maxine Hong Kingston tells of Chinese Americans establishing identities in theUnited States. She acknowledges the importance of ethnicity (the national origins of one’s ancestors or one’sself), yet also the importance of geographical location aside from one’s “homeland” and interactions with othercultures in identity formation. These latter ideas suggest similarity between Kingston and “border identity”theorists. These theorists challenge the arbitrariness of ethnic identities based on national boundaries, claimingthat individual identity is influenced by the various cultures with which one interacts, especially in a mobileglobal society. Moreover, such theorists argue that identity requires redefinition either in terms of multiplenationalities or in terms of geographic units different from nations, such as cities. Yet, redefining what it meansto be an “American” without abandoning the term itself, Kingston distances herself from some border theorists.While recognizing multiple identities, she also counters border theorists’ emphasis on mobility anddisconnection from specific countries by emphasizing the importance of a sense of belonging for peopleoccupying a land with others. Even so, to belong to America in Kingston’s world is not to have a set identity, butrather to have the opportunity to reconstruct identity through group interactions.According to the passage, Kingston and the border identity theorists would be most likely to disagree overwhich of the following?

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