ACT English Practice Question

Read the following excerpt and consider the bolded portion. ...provide stewardship (**legal and ethical management, care, documentation, and use**) of their collections. If the writer were to delete the bolded portion (adjusting the punctuation as needed), the essay would primarily lose a:

1. A.suggestion that not all public museums provide proper stewardship for their artifacts.
2. B.clarification of what public museum stewardship entails.
3. C.list of reasons for educating the public on stewardship.
4. D.description of the daily tasks performed by curators.