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The passage implies which of the following about Thomas Couture' s painting The Romans of the Decadence ?
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Which of the following is an assumption on which the argument depends?
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Although seventeenth-century Europeans thought of the blue-and-white porcelain they imported as quintessentially Chinese, the style was a borrowed, or at least adapted, one. When Chinese potters began firing true porcelain in the fourteenth century, both China and Persia were under Mongol rule, facilitating trade between the two regions. Persians had prized imported Chinese ceramics since the 700s. Unable to match the whiteness of the Chinese imports' clay, Persian potters masked gray clay with white glaze decorated with blue figures using local cobalt. Chinese potters adjusted the look of their products to appeal to Persian buyers, incorporating cobalt decoration into their designs. As Chinese cobalt is paler than Persian cobalt, Chinese potters began importing Persian cobalt to produce a color intended to appeal to Persian buyers.
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The author mentions "Mongol rule" primarily in order to
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The passage suggests which of the following about trade between China and Persia? (Consider each of the choices separately and select all that apply.)
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The trader' s dilemma, which typically occurs in peasant villages, arises in two contexts. First, the trader buys agricultural products in his or her village; although these products are often resold outside the village at a market, where laws of supply and demand exist and profit margins are rather limited, the trader nevertheless feels morally obliged to pay fellow villagers a good price for their products or even eventually to share profits with those villagers. Second, in his or her village shop, the trader sells imported products, but because of villagers' constrained finances must do so at reduced price, or even on credit. In both cases, the trader confronts the risk of either losing working capital or losing the respect and moral support of neighbors and kinfolk.
A classical way out of the dilemma, according to Evers, is sociocultural differentiation of peasants and traders into two separate, locally coexisting moral communities. Evers' point is theoretically significant because it implies that such differentiation may be economically rather than politically motivated. Thus, while in many societies traders are strangers, a migrant minority, it may also happen that a resident trading minority itself creates cultural distance in order to find a solution for the trader' s dilemma, which thus may drive sociocultural change.
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Which of the following gives the most accurate definition of the trader' s dilemma, as it is presented in the passage?
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According to the passage, the "sociocultural change" alluded to in the passage would occur as a result of
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It can be inferred that the "way out of the dilemma" described by Evers works by allowing
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