1)

Within the tribal government of the Crow Indians, the clan system serves as a method of checks and balances that_________the assumption of authoritarian rule by any one clan.


A) determines

B) prevents

C) examines

D) delegates

Answer:

Option B

Explanation:

(B) If the clan system serves as method of checks and balances the natural result will be that any one clan cannot assume authoritarian rule over all the others. So the obvious role of the clan system is to prevent the emergence of such an authoritarian rule. So, (B) is the answer.

You can easily verify that none of the other choices lends a logical meaning to the given sentence.