“I read somewhere that in ancient times the prestige of a kingdom depended upon the number of taxes that it was able to levy on its people. It was very much like the prestige of a head-hunter in his own community.” According to this analogy, a head-hunter’s prestige depended on
Correct answer: (D) How many heads he could gather.
Explanation
The analogy compares quantities accumulated: a kingdom’s many taxes correspond to a head-hunter’s many heads. It does not transfer the act of taxation to the head-hunter or refer to the prestige of individual heads. Thus D, the number of heads gathered.
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