Please refer below lines from the passage -tarik wrote:I chose:
B
E
A
I am not sure about the third answer. Can anybody advice please?
Laissez-faire capitalism, they suggest, clashed with existing religious and communitarian norms that imposed ......
It is stated that "norms" clashed with laissez-faire capitalism but its a stretch to assume that they provided "primary source of opposition."
Similarly lines "..... these norms persisted long after the American Revolution helped unleash the economic forces that produced capitalism." suggest that norms relevant to ideology of the American Revolution.Again we will have to make a stretch to assume that these norms were recognized by historians as an important part of the American Revolution ideology.
option A and E both require a stretch to be the correct ans. For me, A seems to be the right one.
