Which of these is the most likely reason why arrests of illegal aliens decreased drastically from 1993 to 2010?
A. The border became more secure.
B. The punishments became much more severe.
C. The economic opportunities in America decreased.
D. The social pressures on undocumented workers increased.
Answer: C
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The lives of the central characters in Sister Carrie and Maggie: A Girl of the Streets were most shaped by their
A) hard work. B) good character. C) rugged individualism. D) poverty.
Which of these could not be used as a weapon of mass destruction (WMD)?
A) Releasing an epidemic disease of germs or poisons into the atmosphere. B) Poisoning municipal water supplies with a substance designed to kill or maim at least 100,000. C) Introducing diseases such as anthrax through the postal system. D) Infecting a person with a deadly disease to infect as many people as possible before they die. E) Getting infected with the flu virus and going out to full ballpark stadiums.
Which of the following statements properly describes the evolution of religion from Aryan pastoral society to the practice of Aryan elites?
A. Early beliefs that largely focused around ritual sacrifice gave way to a system of tying all deities into natural events. B. Early beliefs were informal and family based which gave way to a state-organized religion. C. The early beliefs with deities representing nature gave way to a formalized system that involved performing sacrifices to obtain favors. D. Early beliefs focused on a Greek-like polytheistic approach that gave way to a monotheistic practice. E. Early beliefs and later practices of Aryan elites remained fairly constant spanning centuries.
The most original contribution of Sinan to Ottoman architecture was:
a. To adapt the dome-over-a-square concept from Roman designs. b. To use stained glass and flying buttresses to distribute weight. c. To incorporate pre-Islamic pyramids, in defiance of the strictures of Islamic law. d. To use up to eight slender pillars as hidden internal supports of the dome.