In the late nineteenth century, many Europeans and Americans were opposed to feminism and homosexuality because both __________
A) strengthened patriarchal authority
B) challenged the secular nature of society
C) stifled individual potential and freedom
D) threatened traditional gender boundaries
Answer: D) threatened traditional gender boundaries
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Which of the following reflects the international order in the early 1990s?
a) Soviet influence over its clients and allies had declined. b) The Middle East was the most stable region in the world. c) The United States pursued an isolationist foreign policy. d) Britain emerged as the sole superpower in the world.
Beginning with a series of papers published in ________, Albert Einstein destroyed the Newtonian notion of a certain, absolute, and mechanistic universe.
a. 1915. b. 1933. c. 1899. d. 1905.
What field of science most influenced racial thinking at the end of the nineteenth century?
A. physics B. biology C. evolution D. medicine
How did UNESCO’s stance on race shift from 1950 to 1952?
a. In 1950 UNESCO portrayed race as a social construct; in 1952, it portrayed it as a biological fact. b. In 1950 UNESCO portrayed race as a biological fact; in 1952, it portrayed it as a social construct. c. In 1950 UNESCO described race using the language of early nineteenth-century scientific racism; in 1952, it abandoned that language. d. In 1952 UNESCO abandoned the language of early nineteenth-century scientific racism; in 1952 it restored that language.