The answer would be a because he wanted you to know the difference between each character
Answer :
Cambridge English Dictionary defines the given words as follows :
1. Minute - "extremely small"
2. Small - "little in size or amount when compared with what is typical or average"
3. Moderate - "neither small nor large in size, amount, degree, or strength"
4. Diminutive - "very small"
From the above definitions we can see that minute, small and diminutive have more or less the same meaning and are, thus, synonyms of each other. They can be used interchangeably.
Moderate is the word that stands out and is different from others as it means something that is average or "neither small nor large in size, amount, degree, or strength."
It's subjunctive, I've looked up the meaning of each word.
The answer would be the first one.
A crucial flaw was that the Constitution gave autonomy to each State to determine the requirements to vote. In this way the states limited the participation of people in the elections and generally gave the right to vote to those men who prove to own some land or pay taxes. Women were excluded from the elections, for which the voting population was reduced to 6% approximately.
