PrepTest 110, Section 4, Question 26
While historians once propagated the myth that Africans(458 more words not shown)
The passage cites which one(20 more words not shown)
- ALandowners did not(12 more words not shown)
- BRice was not(11 more words not shown)
- CTenant farmers did(11 more words not shown)
- DThe labor required(11 more words not shown)
- ETenant lands used(9 more words not shown)
Reading the passage
What made rice cultivation hard to explain under the tenant system? People preferred corn, their small rice crops had no market, and landowners wanted cotton as payment. We're being asked for a reason actually cited, so we should match one of those facts.
Working the answers
- A
Refusing rice as rent isn't the same as refusing to let tenants grow it. We aren't told these landowners prohibited rice cultivation.
- BCorrect
The text says landowners would accept payment exclusively in cotton (paragraph 3). Growing rice therefore couldn't pay the farmers' obligation for using the land, which helps explain why it offered little obvious practical reward.
- C
We aren't told they lacked time. “After-hours” describes cultivation during slavery; it doesn't establish insufficient time under the later tenant system.
- D
The effort seems large compared with the reward from rice. That's different from saying rice requires more strenuous work than cotton. No such comparison is given.
- E
Earlier, rice was grown on land not suited to cotton. That doesn't establish that the tenant lands used for cotton were unsuitable for rice. This proposed obstacle isn't cited.
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