What issue made science education controversial in the early twenty-first century?

a. protests against university genetics programs that researched eugenics
b. protests against psychology classes teaching that homosexuality is a mental illness
c. demands to bring global warming into the science curriculum
d. demands for more federal funds to support and expand science education
e. demands to teach intelligent design instead of evolution


E

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What type of writing is Omar Khayyam best known for?

a. theological b. poetry c. military strategy d. Sufi mysticism e. legal treatises

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Why were the members of Pussy Riot sentenced to three years in the gulag?

a) They were condemned for disrupting society and expressing religious hatred. b) They were condemned for being un-Russian. Consider This: Russian authorities argued that the band members were “motivated by hatred and enmity” and deserved to be punished. See 15.6: Narrative: “Words Will Break Cement.” c) They were condemned for not allowing men in their group. Consider This: Russian authorities argued that the band members were “motivated by hatred and enmity” and deserved to be punished. See 15.6: Narrative: “Words Will Break Cement.” d) They were condemned for being too religious. Consider This: Russian authorities argued that the band members were “motivated by hatred and enmity” and deserved to be punished. See 15.6: Narrative: “Words Will Break Cement.”

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What medical development greatly advanced the image of surgeons and the success of health care in the decades before the Civil War?

A) The development of anesthesia B) The discovery of the cause of epidemics C) The development of new varieties of surgical steel that resulted in sharper scalpels D) The realization of the importance of cleanliness E) All of these choices

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The petition by the Belorussian Jews suggests that Jews were normally perceived as

a. a people wholly separate from the rest of the population. b. religiously distinct, but with similar legal rights to the rest of the population. c. economically privileged but religiously tolerated. d. politically independent of local rulers.

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