Which of the following is true about life under slavery according to the article in the textbook called "The Peculiar Institution of Slavery in the Antebellum South?

a. Slaves worked very few hours of the day
b. Slaves were taught to awe white people
c. Slave masters believed that Negroes were natural-born slaves
d. Slaves were encouraged to be independent of their masters


ANS: b

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a. intelligence. b. determination. c. achievement motivation. d. parents' income.

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In China before the communist revolution, the social stratum that had enough land to meet basic needs and to produce a surplus that could be converted into cash at local markets was the:

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The grief-work model has been widely accepted as the standard formulation for

A. understanding and helping people accommodate to loss. B. maintaining household shrines for ancestors. C. acknowledging the necessity for a universal way of coping. D. recognizing, reacting, and readjusting to loss.

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