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." Which of the following, if true, would most strengthen the revisionist argument described in the passage?

Mortality rates from the Black Death varied widely across different European regions Peasant revolts demanding wage increases became significantly more common in the decades after the Black Death Medieval European records of the plague were largely kept by clerics who may have exaggerated mortality figures The Black Death returned in recurrent waves throughout the late fourteenth and fifteenth centuries

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Peasant revolts demanding wage increases became significantly more common in the decades after the Black Death

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