Drought conditions and ____ have greatly hindered efforts to create modern economies in Africa
a. religious tensions
b. rapid population growth
c. declining population
d. lack of interaction with the West
e. a growing class of elites
b
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Modernism refers to a/an
A) movement in literature and the arts characterized by radical innovation and formal experimentation. B) movement in the arts during the early part of the twentieth century that emphasized subjective expression of the artist's inner experiences. C) image in art that does not strongly resemble external reality. D) nonobjective school of painting and sculpture developed in Paris in the early twentieth century, characterized by the reduction and fragmentation of natural forms into abstract, often geometric structures usually rendered as a set of discrete planes. E) movement that attempts to capture the unconscious mind through artistic expression.
John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath (1939), which was soon made into a film, sympathetically portrayed the plight of __________
A) Oklahoma Dust Bowl migrants B) unemployed Detroit factory workers C) new immigrants in New York City D) poor black farmers in Georgia
All of the following were achievements of the Qin dynasty EXCEPT it
A) emphasized Confucianism. B) freed the serfs. C) constructed public works projects. D) implemented a universal draft. E) expanded the realm of China into South China to Vietnam.
After weeks without a glimpse of land, Columbus's crew named the first land they spotted __________
A) San Salvador, after their Christian savior B) San Christopher, after the patron saint of travel and their captain C) Colombia, after their captain D) the New World