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Direction: Read Text III and answer questions 44 to 48. Book Review: Blood Relations: The Rise and Fall of the Du Ponts of Delaware Barbara Klaw By Leonard Mosley It is hard to read the history of America since 1800 without running into du Ponts. The first patriarch helped Jefferson negotiate the Louisiana Purchase; generations later, du Ponts designed the first secret atomic plants in World War II. 5 The family business has provided gunpowder of increasing sophistication for all of America’s wars from 1812 on, and du Pont chemists have produced dozens of items as indispensable in our lives as cellophane and nylon. 10 That we know less about individual du Ponts than about Rockefellers or Vanderbilts, Mosley says in this highly entertaining history of the dynasty, is because self-appointed family archivists and the company’s “tight-lipped public relations men” have for years sanitized the record. Only 15 recently have scholars been permitted to poke around in family papers. The first Pierre Samuel du Pont advocated marriage between cousins to ensure “honesty of soul and purity of blood.” 20 Several generations later, the reigning patriarch was grumbling that “the thinning” of that pure blood by inbreeding was producing freaks. But the intermarrying cousins, most of them clustered around the original family holdings on the Brandywine River, went right on producing scores of little 25 Pierre Samuels, Alfreds, and Irénées with the typical long du business practices and their personal values? a) Emphasis on control and continuity is reflected in both areas. b) Business ethics were entirely separate from their private lives. c) Their personal values had no influence on their industrial success. d) Business decisions were driven purely by external market influence.