Throughout this test, write your answer on the form provided. Erasure marks may cause the grading machine to mark your answer wrong. INSTRUCTIONS: The following selections relate to distinguishing arguments from nonarguments and identifying conclusions. Select the best answer for each. The world economy is controlled by multinational corporations. The majority of them are based in the United

States. Their power in the underdeveloped nations perpetuates the dependency of many Third World nations on the United States. Multinationals add to the tensions in Third World countries through arms sales and intervention in the domestic affairs of host countries. D. Stanley Eitzen and Maxine Baca Zinn, Social Problems, 9th edition

A) Argument; conclusion: The world economy ... multinational corporations.

B) Argument; conclusion: Their power ... on the United States.

C) Argument; conclusion: Multinationals add ... affairs of host countries.

D) Nonargument.

E) Argument; conclusion: The majority of them are based in the United States.


D

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