In 2005 Mukhtaran Bibi gained worldwide support when she was sentenced by her Pakistani village council to what punishment?
a. imprisonment
b. gang-rape
c. having her hands cut off
d. beheading
e. exile
Ans: b
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All of the following is true of the crisis from 1873 to 1878 EXCEPT:
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Which of the following statements best describes Robert Grosseteste?
a. Grosseteste thought that reason can prove that the world is round. b. Grosseteste believed that the physical world has a mathematical order. c. Grosseteste experimented on the refraction of light. d. Grosseteste believed the earth was round, the physical world was mathematical, and experiments were worthwhile. e. Grosseteste believed that the ancient sources show the world is round and mathematical.
Franklin Roosevelt's victory over Herbert Hoover in 1932
A. was a convincing mandate. B. was decided only in the final days of the election. C. was disputed in several states. D. saw Roosevelt carry every state. E. All these answers are correct.