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The Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) in New In O’odham, an Indigenous language from the
York City has an exhibition of video games that Southwest region of what is now the United States,
includes Pac-Man from 1980, which museum gogs means “a dog” whereas gogogs is used to refer
visitors can play on site, and SimCity 2000 from to several dogs. This phenomenon, in which an
1994, which visitors can see only in a video element of a root word is repeated, sometimes with
presentation. MOMA claims the video modification, within another word that is related to
presentations are only for games that would be the root word, is called reduplication. In this case,
impractical to display in a playable form, but video the element “go” in gogs gets repeated in gogogs.
games are an inherently interactive medium, a There are many examples of this type of

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feature that is grossly absent in a video-only reduplication in O’odham.
presentation. The text makes which point about the O’odham
Which choice best describes the function of the word gogogs?
underlined portion in the text as a whole?

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A) It identifies a feature of many video games
A) It contains a repetition of the element “go” in
gogs.

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that is not shared by some of the games B) It doesn’t have a clear equivalent in English.
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included in MOMA’s exhibition.
C) It is the only word in O’odham that uses
B) It provides a claim about video games as art reduplication.
that both MOMA and the author accept as
true. D) It is identical in meaning to several other words
in O’odham.
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C) It describes a misconception about video
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games that the author believe is evident in

MOMA’s choice about which video games to
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exhibit.
D) It presents a consideration that the author
thinks partly undermines MOMA’s approach
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to exhibiting video games.

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