For what was ENIAC, the first modern digital computer, used?
A. to calculate military information
B. to teach mathematical concepts
C. to entertain curious potential investors
D. to prepare navigation plans for shipping
Answer: A
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A. some basic B. little or no C. nearly equal D. extensive
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.
Gustave Courbet's genius was expressed as
a. court painter of the French Empire. b. landscape artist for rural nobility. c. an artist of everyday life. d. an innovator in pigmentation and color. e. a practitioner of the "living art" of high society and the intellectual elite.
In their development of the “laws” of economic life, the physiocrats recommended all of the following except
A) mercantilism, with a focus on commerce and manufacture. B) the elimination of the collective control of farmland by peasants. C) the elimination of seigneurial rights over land and labor by landowners. D) the free flow of produce to market. E) “let it run on its own.”