The Following Questions Refer to the Excerpt Below

The following questions refer to the excerpt below.
"In order to become literate,seventeenth-century Indians had first to make a graduated succession of cultural concessions-adopting English ways and English dress,living in towns,learning to speak English,converting to Christianity.But these very concessions made them vulnerable.Neither English nor Indian,assimilated Indians were scorned by both groups,and they were even subject to attack.Because the acquisition of literacy,and especially English-language literacy,was one of the last steps on the road to assimilation,Indians who could read and write placed themselves in a particularly perilous,if at the same time a powerful,position,caught between two worlds but fully accepted by neither."
Historian Jill Lepore,"Dead Men Tell No Tales: John Sassamon and the Fatal Consequences of Literacy"
-The passage would be most useful as a source of analysis about which of the following?

A) The significance of trade relationships in the British colonies
B) The difficult life of both colonists and natives in the 17^th century
C) Differences in gender in colonial society
D) The importance of a trans-Atlantic print culture in the 17^th century