Which statement best describes an ideal of family life in colonial Massachusetts?
a. Nothing should prevent children's essential innocence from expressing itself.
b. Women are adornments to society with no practical use.
c. The family's resources should belong equally to the husband and wife.
d. Men are the undisputed masters of their household.
D
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Which of the following statements best explains the position of women as classical Buddhist nuns?
a. Buddhist nuns, like their secular counterparts, remained under the strong patriarchal authority of their father or other male head of family. b. Women lived in double monasteries with men, where they were expected to tend to the household needs of the male monks while also devoting themselves to meditation. c. The position of Buddhist women was better than that of women in Hinduism, but they were still restricted and subordinated to men. d. Buddhist nuns were recognized to have full spiritual equality with men, and could serve in positions of authority over both men and women.
Who did Queen Artemisia of the Greek city of Halicarnassus side with in the Greco-Persian War of 480 B.C.E.?
a. She sided with the Greeks against the Persians. b. She sided with the Persians against the Greeks. c. She sided with Helicarnassus against Greeks and Persians. d. She sided with the Scythians against the Persians. e. She sided with the Persians against the Scythians.
Which of the following is NOT consistent with Milton Diamond’s (2006) biased-interaction theory?
A. Biological factors predispose individuals to display temperaments that are classified as masculine or feminine. B. Gender identity emerges from the comparison of self to others. C. Children begin assessing their similarity to other “boys” and “girls” primarily in puberty. D. “Social factors” are defined as the entire body of gender relevant information that children use as bases of self-other comparisons.
All of the following statements about the election of 1896 are true EXCEPT that
A. progressives used the free silver issue to achieve their first success in national politics. B. Republican William McKinley decisively defeated William Jennings Bryan, who ran on both the Democratic and Populist ticket. C. a major political realignment occurred, as Republicans forged a dominating new coalition of voters. D. both candidates employed new techniques in their campaigns.