In the past, the Kota spoke to the bones of their ancestors before making important decisions. They stored the bones in small baskets woven of rolls of barks or leaves. Sculpture such as this peace — which is called a Kota funerary figure — was tied to the top of the baskets. We are not certain what the figure meant to the Kota.

Which text feature would best help the reader understand this excerpt?

A. A sidebar about other African tribes.
B. A glossary to define the word “funerary”.
C. A graph showing the number of Kota sculptures.
D. A chapter heading to summarize the text.

D) A chapter heading to summarize the text

Explanation: Reading through this, I mentally added the said features. I found B useless because it already tells us what a funerary is. We don't hear about other tribes, and it would only detract from the main excerpt, so sidebar is out. We don't need to know the number of these sculptures, unless there was test question about it, which I doubt. Which leaves D) as the most likely answer out of all of them, because it makes the most sense to add. (Hope this helps)

D) a chapter heading to summarize the text

Explanation:

In the past, the Kota spoke to the bones of their ancestors before making important decisions. They stored the bones in small baskets woven of rolls of bark or leaves. Sculpture such as this piece -- which is called a Kota funerary figure -- was tied to the top of the baskets. We are not certain what the figure meant to the Kota.

( look good in the passage )

overnment is strong when they have the ability to persuade those they govern to believe government has enough power to force them or should be forcing them to do government’s will.

when enough of the citizenry do not believe government can force them or should force them to do its bidding, government has lost or will lose its strength and power to coerce.

when enough of the citizenry do believe government can force or should force them to do its bidding, they become passive at the least or actively pro-government and repeat government’s own rhetoric to pass on what they have been persuaded by government’s propaganda.

a true majority isn’t always needed to govern or to stop government. many times all that is needed is a strong minority. if a determined 30% of the population rises up against government in a concerted effort to bring it down, this size minority usually will succeed as long as those actively opposing the minority are less in force than the minority. so if 41% of the population sits at home watching tv rooting for one side or the other, they don’t matter. it’s the active parties who make a difference.