Anita Hill's testimony did not prevent Clarence Thomas's appointment to the Supreme Court but it did:
A) thrust the radical feminist agenda onto the national stage.
B) focus broader awareness on the problem of sexual harassment.
C) inspire a new generation of African American women to enter the political arena.
D) inspire a reaction by black men who felt themselves demonized by the Hill-Thomas hearings.
Answer: B
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a) The number of women in the workforce sharply increased. b) The wage gap between men and women significantly widened. c) The gay rights movement lost its earlier momentum. d) The role of women was limited to managing the household.
The geocentric model of the universe fit with the Christian worldview in that
a. it accorded with the idea that God created the universe for human beings. b. some monotheistic groups worshipped the sun. c. Christians did not think of heaven as a physical place. d. Christians were opposed to sun worship because it was pagan. e. it put man at the highest rung of the cosmic ladder.
All of the following were negotiating tactics the Byzantine emperor used with the Rus except
a. diplomacy. b. trade. c. military recruitment. d. religious conversion. e. intellectual exchange.
The upper-class plantation mistress
A. faced an unexpected variety of burdensome managerial and service duties. B. enjoyed the unique luxury of criticizing her own role in society as well as the slave system in general. C. accepted a sexual code that kept white women pure but tolerated sexual relations between white men and slave women. D. lived a life of leisure centered around artistic and literary pursuits.