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stevenposner

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In Japan, as in other societies with a long history of caste, today people may not always discuss _____ openly, but it is never far from the surface when people size up one another socially.
 
  a. family background
  b. personal talent
  c. educational degrees
  d. favorite activities

Question 2

At the top of the system of inequality in the former Soviet Union were the ________
 
  a. industrial capitalists.
  b. intelligentsia, or educated professionals.
  c. apparatchiks, or high government officials.
  d. hereditary nobility.



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Answer to Question 1

Answer: a

Answer to Question 2

Answer: c



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