Multiple choice

Directions: For the given question, select one entry for the blank from the given choices, to best complete the text.

They set down the unapologetic “money-is-all” credo of the low-level street hustler, in which drug dealing, guns and the police swirl about in a ferocious urban storm. Like other popular representations of American gangsterism—The Godfather, Scarface—it was a vision of ________ free market enterprise.

  1. underground

  2. unorganized

  3. unfettered

  4. angelic

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

(1) Incorrect; because the passage refers to 'street hustlers' and police, it can hardly be called underground free market enterprise. Also, calling free market enterprise underground would be raising doubts about capitalism itself. (2) Incorrect; with reference to 'gangsterism', and continuing the freedom implied in 'free market enterprise', a word conveying freedom is required. (3) Correct; the word fits nicely with 'free market enterprise', and in allowing gangsterism, and street level hustling, the relevance of 'unfettered' is further strengthened. (4) Incorrect; 'angelic' would imply something heavenly. However, gangsterism and drug dealing would go opposite to angelic. (5) Incorrect; with reference to 'gangsterism', and continuing the freedom implied in 'free market enterprise', a word conveying freedom is required.