A satire is best defined as a
A) type of literature that uses irony, exaggeration, and wit to expose and ridicule human folly.
B) delicate, ornate, and fanciful style of architecture and painting of the eighteenth century.
C) humorous take on the human condition with no expense spared.
D) style that strictly follows the most admired models of ancient art, seeking to reproduce their orderliness, proportion, and restraint.
E) cultural fashion in literature of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, guided by the attempt to find perfect forms of expression based upon ancient models and universal laws.
A
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The South's education system in the first half of the nineteenth century
A) was heavily subsidized by state taxes. B) was advanced compared to that of the North. C) was not well supported by public funds. D) solved the problem of illiteracy.
In the late nineteenth century, European Jews
a. were widely represented among law and medical students in some countries. b. moved to Germany in large numbers. c. were completely blocked from achieving economic success. d. successfully blocked anti-Semitic measures in eastern Europe. e. were granted a homeland in Palestine, which they called Zion.
All of the following had territory in the Caribbean except
A) Spain. B) England. C) Portugal. D) the Netherlands. E) France.
Late-seventeenth-century Puritan minister Samuel Sewell would have opposed which of the following activities?
What will be an ideal response?