As a product of the Enlightenment thinking, Benjamin Franklin __________
a. turned to organized religion for meaning in his life
b. devoted his life to his own personal religious views
c. rejected the practical pursuits of life in favor of contemplation, meditation, and intellectual
inquiry
d. pursued his curiosities until they yielded useful scientific ideas and ingenious material inventions
e. sought to find true enlightenment by giving up most of his material possessions
D
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a. He received a personal audience from President Lincoln, who agreed that the treatment of black soldiers was unjust. b. He was stripped to the waist and whipped two hundred times for mutiny. c. He was executed by firing squad. d. He was dismissed from the service and sentenced to forty years in prison.
The English writer who argued in A Serious Proposal to the Ladies that women should become better educated was
A) Anne Stuart. B) Mary Astell. C) Mary Wollstonecraft. D) Jane Austin. E) Maria Cavendish.
The oldest African state is
A) Libya. B) Sudan. C) Ethiopia. D) Tunisia. E) Morocco.
Asian American women in the study by Pyke and Johnson claimed to possess traits associated with White femininity, except for:
a. assertiveness. b. family-orientation. c. confidence. d. independence.