Read the quote below to answer the following question. (8-5.4)
"[The registrar] brought a big old book out there, and he gave me the sixteenth section of the constitution of Mississippi, . . . I could copy it like it was in the book, but after I got through copying it,he told me to give a reasonable interpretation of what I read and tell the meaning of the section I had copied. Well, I flunked out."
---Source: A History of the United States since 1861
Which of the following best describes the action documented above?