Which statement concerning the Welfare Reform Act of 1996 is true?
A) It was passed by a Republican-controlled Congress over President Clinton's veto.
B) It generally followed principles favored by liberals since the days of the New Deal.
C) It ended all welfare payments to adults within one year after its passage.
D) It limited welfare payments for most recipients to two years with a five-year lifetime cap.
E) It provided the largest increase in welfare benefits since the New Deal.
D
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What will be an ideal response?
Emma Goldman was arrested under the Comstock laws for
A) a mailing campaign. B) printing birth control information. C) printing anarchist pamphlets. D) lecturing on birth control.
The most fundamental problem faced by the Confederacy during the war was
a. lack of industry. b. shortage of labor. c. lack of natural resources. d. internal problems caused by the class system of the South.
Which of the following was true about Terman's study of genius?
A. because he only studied males, the study was systematically biased B. because so many of the subjects dropped out of the study after a relatively short time, the results are virtually impossible to interpret C. the sample was biased, overloaded with white children from professional, urban families D. a significant number of these highly intelligent children were emotionally immature and tended to burn out early in life