Situation-comedy television shows of the 1950s portrayed American families as
a. unimportant in American culture.
b. white, polite, and happy.
c. including two parents who worked in white-collar professions.
d. troubled and full of conflict.
ANS: b
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a. the need for fewer slaves in the Caribbean b. the lower death rate in the Caribbean c. a higher rate of importation to North America d. the more temperate climate of North America
In eighteenth-century Europe,
A. it was illegal for a noble-class male to marry a middle-class female without a government dispensation everywhere except in Prussia and the Netherlands. B. noble and bourgeois women dressed in the same fashion and were visually indistinguishable. C. the peasants composed less than forty percent of the populations of Austria and France. D. nobles constituted approximately two or three percent of the population. E. factory workers had replaced farmers as the majority of the population.
Samuel Beckett, in Waiting for Godot, developed the dramatic movement known as
a. Cubism. b. the Theater of the Absurd. c. Synergetic Surrealism. d. Monism. e. Didacticism.
Under Shah Reza Khan,
A. women were educated, and their rights were greatly expanded. B. the bureaucracies of Iran's government, both civilian and military, were modernized. C. no progress was made in modernizing the economic infrastructure of the country. D. the authority of Islamic religious beliefs was destroyed in Iran. E. foreign influence in Iran was eliminated.