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GRE Verbal Reasoning Practice Questions - GRE General Test - Verbal Reasoning Measure Exam

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Read the following passage and answer the question. "For centuries, historians treated the Black Death of 1347–1353 as an unambiguous catastrophe. Recent scholarship, however, has complicated this narrative. Some economic historians argue that the plague, by drastically reducing Europe's labor supply, inadvertently empowered surviving peasants to negotiate better wages and eventually loosened the bonds of serfdom. This revisionist view does not deny the appalling human cost — perhaps one-third of Europe's population perished — but insists that the long-run social consequences were not uniformly negative." The author's attitude toward the revisionist view of the Black Death can best be described as:
Correct Answer:
Measured acceptance

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