Big men accumulate wealth because a. they are chiefs who are trying to make their achieved status more permanent by engaging in conspicuous symbolic displays of wealth. b. the term big man refers to the liminal state that a kapauku youth enters before marriage, during which he accumulates wealth in order to fund the wedding and pay the bride-price. c. they are typically war leaders, and as such they must maintain a supply of "grievance gifts" to compensate the families of warriors who die under their command. d. to become a big man, an individual must wear a tonowi shell necklace, which is imported from the coast and is therefore quite expensive by kapauku standards. e. big men do not keep the wealth they accumulate but rather redistribute it to create and maintain alliances with political supporters.

Voters commonly condemn politicians for being insincere, but politicians often must disguise their true feelings when they make public statements. if they expressed their honest views—about, say, their party's policies—then achieving politically necessary compromises would be much more difficult. clearly, the very insincerity that people decry shows that our government is functioning well. which of the following, if true, most seriously undermines this reasoning? (a) achieving political compromises is not all that is necessary for the proper functioning of a government. (b) some political compromises are not in the best long-term interest of the government. (c) voters often judge politicians by criteria other than the sincerity with which they express their views. (d) a political party's policies could turn out to be detrimental to the functioning of a government. (e) some of the public statements made by politicians about their party's policies could in fact be sincere.