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YellowSapphire
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99. Although many seventeenth-century broadsides, popular ballads printed on a single sheet of paper and widely sold by street peddlers, were moralizing in nature, this is not evidence that most seventeenth-century people were serious about moral values. While over half of surviving broadsides contain moralizing statements, and it is known that many people purchased such compositions, it is not known why they did so, nor is it known how their own beliefs related to what they read.
Which one of the following, if true, most strengthens the argument?
A: Like other forms of cheap seventeenth-century popular literature, surviving broadsides seems mostly to have been rather low literary quality and to have been written by hack writers.
B: In many moralizing ballades, the moral content was confined to a single stanza expressing a pious sentiment tacked onto a sensationalized account of the crime and adultery.
C: Some seventeenth-century ballad sellers also sold some sermons printed in pamphlet form.
D: The clergy occasionally stuck broadsides warning about the danger of strong drink on the doors of seventeenth-century alehouses.
E: Well-educated people of the seventeenth century held broadsides in contempt and considered broadside peddlers to be disreputable vagrants.
OA: B
99. Although many seventeenth-century broadsides, popular ballads printed on a single sheet of paper and widely sold by street peddlers, were moralizing in nature, this is not evidence that most seventeenth-century people were serious about moral values. While over half of surviving broadsides contain moralizing statements, and it is known that many people purchased such compositions, it is not known why they did so, nor is it known how their own beliefs related to what they read.
Which one of the following, if true, most strengthens the argument?
A: Like other forms of cheap seventeenth-century popular literature, surviving broadsides seems mostly to have been rather low literary quality and to have been written by hack writers.
B: In many moralizing ballades, the moral content was confined to a single stanza expressing a pious sentiment tacked onto a sensationalized account of the crime and adultery.
C: Some seventeenth-century ballad sellers also sold some sermons printed in pamphlet form.
D: The clergy occasionally stuck broadsides warning about the danger of strong drink on the doors of seventeenth-century alehouses.
E: Well-educated people of the seventeenth century held broadsides in contempt and considered broadside peddlers to be disreputable vagrants.
OA: B
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