Recent research on American agriculture indicates
A) that the small farm is destined to disappear.
B) that small farms are not necessarily less efficient than large farms.
C) that family farms have become obsolete because they do not employ modern farming methods.
D) that today, as during the Depression, sharecropping is a way for landowners to exploit the labor of those who work the land.
E) that marijuana is the only cash crop that can make a small farm profitable.
B
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a. True b. False
In the debate of how speciation occurs, advocates of punctuated equilibrium
A. describe macroevolution as the gradual accumulation of evolutionary changes over time. B. agree with the advocates of intelligent design on views about the flaws in fossil-dating techniques. C. define species the same way creationists and gradualists do. D. have revived Darwin's classic description of change over time. E. suggest that long periods of stability, during which species change little, are interrupted by evolutionary leaps.
All of the following are true about Islamic financing in the U.S. following the 2001 World Trade Center attack except:
a. U.S. Muslim home financing increased after 2001, as Muslims were eager to demonstrate their commitment to the American dream. b. after 2001, U.S. Muslims withdrew a great deal of their monies from charities that might be misunderstood by others. c. U.S. Muslims withdrew their monies to a great extent from the stock market and began investing in real estate. d. Muslims in the U.S. stopped reporting their income to the Internal Revenue Service. e. U.S. Muslims base many of their financial decisions on religious concepts.
Which of the following statements about U.S. racial categories is true?
A. U.S. racial categories are applied to endogamous breeding populations. B. U.S. racial categories are biologically valid, as demonstrated by the Phipps case in the 1970s in Louisiana. C. U.S. racial categories are based on global racial categories that vary little among societies. D. U.S. racial categories are based on genetics, whereas Japan's are based upon undemonstrated descent. E. U.S. racial categories are culturally arbitrary, even though most people assume them to be based in biology.