Answers: Part A: D. Part B:C
The idea that supports the claim that smaller offices are more honest than big ones is the last one, that small communities have more incentives against crime. The reason for this is that if a community has more incentives against crime than another, it is more likely to be more honest as crime is related to dishonesty and this is something the small communities try to avoid.
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'So every day I wove on the great loom, but every night by torchlight I unwove it; and so for three years I deceived the Akhaians.'
