"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."
Based on the paragraph, the prestige of a head-hunter depended upon ______.
Options:
(A) the prestige of the kingdom
(B) the prestige of the heads
(C) the number of taxes he could levy
(D) the number of heads he could gather
Official Answer Key:
D
Step-by-Step Solution & Explanation
The analogy equates "number of taxes levied" (which determines a kingdom's prestige) with the head-hunter's counterpart quantity, i.e. the number of heads gathered. (A), (B), (C) misapply terms from the kingdom side of the analogy directly onto the head-hunter, which is exactly the mismatch the analogy warns against. Answer: (D) the number of heads he could gather.
Section 1 — Engineering Mathematics
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