Question 11.

According to this book review, A Thirst for Empire says that, in addition to “profitmotivated marketers”, tea drinking was promoted in Britain by all of the following EXCEPT:
A
manufacturers who were pressing for duty-free imports.
B
tea drinkers lobbying for product diversity.
C
the anti-alcohol lobby as a substitute for the consumption of liquor.
D
factories to instill sobriety in their labour.

Question Explanation

Text Explanation

We can refer to the following excerpt to examine the choices: { Beginning in the 1700s, the temperance movement advocated for tea as a pleasure that cheered but did not inebriate, and industrialists soon borrowed this moral argument in advancing their case for free trade in tea (and hence more open markets for their textiles). Factory owners joined in, compelled by the cause of a sober workforce, while Christian missionaries discovered that tea “would soothe any colonial encounter”. }

Options A, C and D can be directly inferred from the excerpt. The author does not present any information pertaining to tea drinkers lobbying for product diversity - hence, we can identify this as an incorrect reason. 

Therefore, Option B is the correct choice. 

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