Answer:
The answer is B.
Explanation:
The passage clearly describes Mrs. Tilley's struggle to catch the cow, whom she calls "horned torment", and states that she's been doing it for too long to blame anyone for simply lingering in that place. At the same time, she is happy that Sylvia... or anyone for that matter, is helping her perform this task.
It can be deduced from the given that what Mario used as payment for the goods that he acquired is also goods. The answer to this item is commodity. It is a type of money that is not in a form of cash but has a value that can be an exchange for another commodity.
So people could get supplies and money because people got taxed so they kept getting more and more money so they wanted more supplies.