As a Member of the Growing Shi Class of Well-To-Do

question 33

Multiple Choice

As a member of the growing shi class of well-to-do, educated commoners and lower aristocracy, Confucius _____________.

• A) Easily found employment in his native state of Lu and far beyond.
• B) Argued that whatever the shi class maintained to be moral was actually moral.
• C) Advocated the "well-field" system as a means of ensuring crop surpluses and equality among peasant cultivators.
• D) Sought a position as political adviser to the courts of several states, but was largely unsuccessful.

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