From Romania to Germany, from Tallinn to Belgrade, ... ...

The author originally thought that the order of events in the transformation of communist society would be represented by which one of the following?
(A) A great political shock would break the totalitarian monopoly, leaving in its wake a civil society whose task would be to change the state-controlled market into a free economy.
(B) ...
(C) ...
(D) ...
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*This question is included in Nova Reading B: Types of Questions and Passages Exercise