How did William Shakespeare embody humanist principles?
A) He went beyond the humanist traditions and created a new entertainment, dramedy.
B) He revived Greek drama imbibed with medieval traditions and language.
C) He brought Italian dramatic traditions into the English society.
D) He adjusted the play for the current audiences by adding small Latin and less Greek.
E) He revived Chaucerian characters combined with contemporary English traditions.
B
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What will be an ideal response?
The passage of the Nineteenth Amendment
A) repealed Prohibition. B) outlawed the manufacture and distribution of alcohol. C) gave women the right to vote. D) created national social welfare programs. E) ended child labor across the country.
What was the primary purpose of the Ladies Magazine?
A) It glorified the middle-class family with a pious wife and mother. B) It championed suffrage and political rights for women. C) It crusaded for prohibition and the abolition of slavery. D) It offered working women ideas on maintaining a good home.
Which of these patterns was marked by the rise of the Babylonian Empire?
A) a steady progression towards larger and larger empires in the region B) the contraction of Mesopotamian political life to the mouth of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. C) the disintegration of empires into city-states D) the end of Sumerian culture under an invader