Which line is a direct quotation from an external source?
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Read the excerpt from "Early Victorian Tea Set" by Neil
MacGregor
This is quite clearly mid-range pottery, simple earthenware
of a sort that many quite modest British households were
then able to afford. But the owners of this particular set
must have had serious social aspirations, because all three
pieces have been decorated with a drape of lacy
hallmarked silver. The historian Celina Fox explains that
tea-time had become a very smart event:
In the 1840s the Duchess of Bedford introduces the
ritual of afternoon tea, because by this time dinner
had become so late, seven-thirty to eight o'clock, that
it was a bit of a gap for the British tummy between
lunchtime and evening. For a while there was a revival
of tea-drinking, as a sort of meal for sandwiches and
so forth, around four o'clock.
"This is quite clearly mid-range pottery, simple
earthenware of a sort that many quite modest British
households were then able to afford."
"But the owners of this particular set must have had
serious social aspirations, because all three pieces have
been decorated with a drape of lacy hallmarked silver."
"The historian Celina Fox explains that tea-time had
become a very smart event..."
"In the 1840s the Duchess of Bedford introduces the
ritual of afternoon tea, because by this time dinner had
become so late, seven-thirty to eight o'clock .."
O
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yes it did. that's been proven time and again. i used to be an elementary school teacher myself, and i worked with thousands of kids with cerebral palsy across the nation and in canada. what i observed was that children with dyslexia were struggling to read and learn. it was a serious issue that impacted teachers all over the country, but it was so often ignored and denied.

and children with disabilities – children who have learning disabilities – they got to spend a lot of time reading in a classroom.

i could not believe there was never any kind of conversation in my school about how to provide more opportunities for students with disabilities. the education system was still looking for ways to keep the pressure on children's teachers to improve their grades, that they have to be teachers who were in the grade for eight years, and they weren't even being evaluated.

so why weren't parents or guardians concerned about whether their kids were being by this system, if they could not see their kids in a classroom that they could improve? why couldn't you say, "i think you need to improve your reading skills," right? and they certainly believed it when i pointed it out to them. it doesn't matter if you said, "you need to go to an optometry class, or to a teacher's camp

the answer is d) the impatience of ordinary people

the people of renaissance florence, like most city–states of the era, were composed of four social classes: the nobles, the merchants, the tradesmen and the unskilled workers.

the nobles lived on large estates outside the city walls. they owned most of the city’s land, so the nobles controlled. the nobles served as military officers, royal advisers and as politicians.

baldassare castiglione described the proper manners of a noble in the book of the courtier (1528). castiglione wrote that a noble must have training to be an able warrior and social talents such as wit, the ability to dance, and “a certain grace that makes all his activities seem effortless and unconscious.”

the nobles were disdainful of the merchant class, who gained wealth in industries like wool processing, shipbuilding and banking. the merchants sought to protect their wealth by controlling the government and marrying into noble families. they became patrons of great artists in order to gain public favor.

the tradesmen of florence were the crafts workers and shopkeepers. most tradesmen belonged to guilds, organizations that established standards of quality, set rules for membership, and limited outside competition.

the unskilled workers were the lowest class of city workers. these laborers did not have job protection and were very dependent on their employers. workers who violated rules could have their wages withheld or could be discharged from their jobs.