The correct answer is B. The effects of slavery are much worse than the effects of materialism.
Explanation:
A critique is an evaluation or assessment in which the author aims at analyzing the positive and negative aspects of some material (novel, story, movie). This implies for a critique to be valid it needs to provide some judgment that analyses a specific aspect of the material analyzed. In the excerpt presented from Utopia, it is explained the Prince or government decided to use precious materials such as gold or silver in objects such as chamber-pots or close-stools to avoid people feel these materials are special. Additionally, these materials are used to show slavers are inferior by creating gold chains and making slavers wear gold earrings. From this excerpt the statement that works a critique of it is "The effects of slavery are much worse than the effects of materialism" because this is the only statement that goes beyond summarizing the information of the excerpt by analyzing the effects the concept of materialism has in comparison to the existence of slavery by stating the use of gold and silver in certain objects is not as harmful as it is slavery. This means statement B. is evaluation the aspects of the excerpt which is the main purpose of a critique.
Answer: Simple answer is the sun
The correct answer is "shoebox-sized store"
Explanation:
The setting includes the place where a story occurs and this is related to the geographical features of the place such as the existence of mountains or a forest, the location of the place, and even the buildings in this place. Moreover, this setting is explained to the reader by using descriptive language that allows the reader to imagine or visualize a location. This is better exemplified in "shoebox-sized store" because this detail refers to the buildings in this place, which is part of the setting, and it allows the reader to imagine the specific store by using words that explain the store is rather small.
