The greatest success for workingmen and women generated by early nineteenth-century labor protest was the campaign for
A) land reform. B) the ten-hour workday.
C) workingmen's compensation laws. D) a minimum wage.
B
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Which statement best characterizes the power and status of women in ancient Egypt?
A) Women served as the rulers of Egypt because it was a matriarchal society. B) Women were treated as property and were allowed no legal rights once married. C) Women held a relatively high status, could own property, and be public officials. D) Women lived in a separate society from men, rarely interacting with Egyptian society.
What is the connection of poetry to the black arts movement?
A) It combined sounds and rhythms of the street, music, and religious sermons. B) It was published by a variety of journals in Chicago, Detroit, and New York. C) It used very formal language to dramatize the effects of white society on black life. D) The only poetry published was by black men.
On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres was written by
A. Ptolemy. B. Nicolaus Copernicus. C. Isaac Newton. D. Galileo Galilei. E. Jonathan Swift.
The chapter introduction tells the story of Sister Aimee and the imaginary Smiths to make the point that
A. transformations of the New Era mixed ambivalently with traditional beliefs and practices. B. in the Jazz Age, truth was often stranger than fiction. C. Catholics, like other marginal groups, were becoming more culturally influential in the urbanized mass culture of the 1920s. D. modern methods and values had taken over the minds of Americans by the 1920s.