In order to combat carville’s rampant homeless problem, mayor bloomfield recently proposed a ban on sleeping outdoors in the city’s many parks. he claims that such a measure will force the homeless to either leave carville or to find means other than sleeping in public parks. which of the following, if true, suggests that mayor bloomfield’s plan will be successful? a: until the ban, the city’s many homeless shelters were at less than fifty percent occupancy. b: many homeless tend to congregate underneath carville’s numerous overpasses. c: adjacent cities have even tougher measures on the homeless sleeping outdoors. d: the percent of carville’s population that has been homeless has been slowly decreasing in the last fiveyears.

Voters commonly condemn politicians for being insincere, but politicians often must disguise their true feelings when they make public statements. if they expressed their honest views—about, say, their party's policies—then achieving politically necessary compromises would be much more difficult. clearly, the very insincerity that people decry shows that our government is functioning well. which of the following, if true, most seriously undermines this reasoning? (a) achieving political compromises is not all that is necessary for the proper functioning of a government. (b) some political compromises are not in the best long-term interest of the government. (c) voters often judge politicians by criteria other than the sincerity with which they express their views. (d) a political party's policies could turn out to be detrimental to the functioning of a government. (e) some of the public statements made by politicians about their party's policies could in fact be sincere.