Historian Naomi Adler approaches the French Revolution not as a single political upheaval but as a cluster of overlapping crises — fiscal, agricultural, intellectual, and religious — that happened to converge in the late 1780s. From this perspective, asking why "the Revolution" occurred is itself misleading; one must ask why these distinct crises coincided.
Which choice best describes the function of the second sentence in the text?
- A
It provides a counterexample to Adler's framework.
- Bcheck_circle
It draws a methodological consequence from the framing introduced in the first sentence.
- C
It restates the first sentence in stronger terms.
- D
It introduces a competing historian's view.
Explanation
Given Adler's pluralized framework, the sentence draws a methodological lesson about how to pose the question. B captures the inferential move.