The decoration of the Damascus room (Qa'a) includes abstract geometric patterns rendered in sumptuous materials as well as poetic inscriptions all of which highlight the wealth and taste of the patron.
a. true
b. false
Answer: a. true
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a. Sung b. Han c. Zhou d. Tang e. Ming
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a. Unitarianism b. Quakerism c. Presbyterianism d. Lutheranism e. Methodism
Despite early resistance, the main reason free public education ultimately triumphed was
a. wealthy and politically powerful Americans feared that if the government failed to provide free public education, poor families immigrants would utilize their free vote to elect candidates and political parties unfavored by these political and economic elites. b. wealthy Americans feared the problem of vagrancy as farm families depended less upon the labor of children. c. Southern slave owners abandoned their resistance to it. d. teaching provided paid employment for unmarried, single women. e. poor Americans threatened to launch a violent rebellion unless free education was made available.
Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)
1. The main focus of the interviews Sasson-Levy designed to conduct with male combat soldiers was body practices and emotional management in the military. 2. The reward for the strenuous efforts of the combat soldiers is the opportunity to experience physical and emotional thrill. 3. According to Sasson-Levy, combat soldiers are trained to become fighting machines, with no experience of their own emotions.