The image shows a piece of art found at the Catal Huyuk site in Turkey. A stone sculpture of 2 human figures. Detailed facial and body features are visible. Why is it reasonable to conclude that this piece of art was produced in a settled agricultural society rather than a hunter-gatherer tribe? Only an artist with a lot of skill and advanced tools could create this statue from stone. Artists in permanent settlements were limited in using only certain tools to create their art. Only an artist with simple skills in representing the human form could produce this figure of stone. Artists in agricultural societies had limited access to resources other than stone for their works of art.

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.