Traveling by canal from western New York to Albany took twice as long as traveling by road
A) False
B) True
A
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Eloise has turned 67 years old. People she meets compliment her by saying, "You don't look your age." The implicit assumption in this remark is that she
A. is very pretty. B. would be ugly if she looked her age. C. makes the most of her appearance. D. must have exercised her whole life.
Why did John Locke, along with most scholars of medicine, hold the practice of dissection in disdain?
A) Working with one's hands received less academic prestige than did intellectual work. B) Cutting into a human cadaver was a desecration of the immortal soul's earthly temple. C) Philosophers required no knowledge of the natural world in order to find truth. D) The exercise only confirmed what Galen had already discovered in ancient times. E) Andreas Vesalius had already made anatomical drawings available for medical students.
In Worcester v. Georgia, the Supreme Court ruled that the Cherokee Nation
A) was a distinct political community and entitled to federal protection from Georgia's claims. B) was subject to federal but not state laws. C) was not protected by the Constitution. D) was bound by state laws. E) could sue individuals but not the state government.
What was the goal of the French Royal Academy of Sciences in sending expeditions to the Arctic Circle in the eighteenth century?
a. to prove the spherical shape of the Earth b. to measure climate changes c. to catalog indigenous animals d. to research native peoples' use of the land