The text refers to salons as
a. regular receptions devoted to intelligent, egalitarian conversation, often hosted by women.
b. the last stronghold of aristocratic privileges.
c. a place where culture and traditional fashions still held sway.
d. the place where the French king retired when his public duties were finished.
e. businesses catering to the emerging consumer societies of Western Europe.
a
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A) military officers. B) Westernized intellectuals. C) Muslim clerics. D) wealthy industrialists. E) landed aristocrats.
What happened to the Hellenistic states in the centuries after Alexander the Great?
a. They became more monarchical. b. They rarely fought amongst themselves. c. They combined Greek-Macedonians and Near Eastern natives in administrative positions. d. They showed little innovation in their armies. e. They all disappeared by the second century B.C.E.
The fundamental criticism directed against the new popular mass media culture in the 1950s, by such social critics as David Riesman and William H. Whyte,Jr., was that
a. affluence tended to erode Americans' moral character. b. Americans had become affluent conformists unable to think for themselves. c. the wealth produced by the new mass economy was unevenly distributed. d. the open sexual displays of figures like Elvis Presley and Marilyn Monroe were morally dangerous. e. it did not reflect the cultural tastes and preferences of racial and ethnic minorities in America.
The French and Indian War formally erupted in the summer of ________
A. 1745 B. 1765 C. 1755 D. 1775