The author implies that Weber’s actual hypotheses are

The passage implies that, in comparing two populations, Weber thought that the development of industry would be higher in the population that

The author of the passage refers to “Periclean democracy and Roman republicanism” () primarily in order to

It is generally believed that people need to engage in regular and strenuous physical exercise in order to maintain their physical health. Actually, however, low-impact walking—that is, walking at a normal pace, which elevates the heart rate and releases many of the hormones released in more strenuous exercise—is enough. This is evidenced by the strong correlation between the amount of time spent walking and measures of general physical health demonstrated by many studies.

Which of the following, if true, most seriously weakens the force of the evidence cited?

Online retailers have made it easy to purchase a variety of items without leaving the house; it remains to be seen whether shoppers will cease to visit malls and browse the stores as their inventories have grown even more extensive.

Black bears, many of them for a very long time, hibernate just like groundhogs do, yet being not considered “true hibernators” because their body temperatures do not drop below 20 degrees Celsius.

As hurricane season reached full force, many beach-dwellers along the southeast coast temporarily left to stay with friends and relatives whose homes were located farther inland.

Gottlob Frege, who was a philosopher and mathematician, undertook projects both investigating standard mathematical topics such as geometry and analysis, and the logical foundation of mathematics in an abstract sense.

It is difficult to say precisely how many species of insects there are on Earth, in part because it is often hard to distinguish between a separate species and a variety of one, but scientists who have to give an estimate usually place the number at around 950,000 unique species.

Demand for snowboards is predicted to be lower this year than last because meteorologists have forecast far warmer weather for this winter than they did last year.

An important distinction between the moral development of very young children with that of older children may lay not so much in the awareness of ethical boundaries but in the ability to articulate those rules and use them to respond to drastically new situations.

Although coin clipping, a practice in which small amounts of silver or gold would be chipped from a coin to be sold as bullion, was made more difficult in England by the introduction of coin milling machines in 1662, it remained common until the end of the century before all the old unmilled coins were removed from circulation.

The authors propose all of the following as possibly explaining the presence of water on the surface of the early Earth EXCEPT

The primary purpose of the passage is to

The information in the passage suggests that which of the following statements from hypothetical historical studies of economic change in political history most clearly exemplifies the economic determinists’ vision of historical change?

The information in the passage suggests that Winkler believes that which of the following would be true if ideological determinism had not gained widespread acceptance?

According to the passage, ideological determinists employed which of the following to promote their argument?

Which of the following statements about Winkler’s study on the industrialization of England can be inferred from information in the passage?

It can be inferred from the passage that the experiment results produced by Zimmer would be less expedient and hence less useful to scientists if which of the following were true?

The primary purpose of the passage is to