Social critic: The operas composed by Bizet and Verdi are nineteenth-century European creations, reflecting the attitudes and values in France and Italy at the end of that century. Several recent studies impugn these operas on the grounds that they reinforce in our society many stereotypes about women. But only a small minority of contemporary North Americans, namely opera lovers, have had any significant exposure to these works. Which one of the following most accurately expresses the conclusion that the social critic's argument, as it is stated above, is structured to establish? ['The operas of Bizet and Verdi have not significantly contributed to stereotypical images of women in contemporary North America.', 'Bizet and Verdi constructed images of women that have significantly influenced contemporary stereotypes.', 'Nineteenth-century French and Italian images of women are quite different from contemporary North American images of women.', 'People cannot be influenced by things they are not directly exposed to.']