What did author Dorothy Parker allude to when she said that "the best way to keep children home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant—and let air out of the tires"?
A) Younger people grew more independent as they used cars to travel further from home.
B) Attendance at school and church dropped as younger people chose instead to joyride in cars.
C) Use of automobiles by younger people boosted illegal drinking.
D) The automobile promoted looser courting and sexual morals among younger people.
D
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The Spartans left Pausanias to starve because he was
A) overly ambitious and behaving like a Persian despot. B) revealing military secrets to Athens. C) fighting battles in which too many Spartans died. D) urging Sparta to build overly expensive city walls. E) encouraging the helots to rebel.
The 1970s recession and the strain it placed on women and families led to the demise of the
A) Equal Rights Amendment. B) Displaced Homemaker Act. C) Equal Opportunity Commission. D) Carter Commission on Women's Rights and Opportunities.
According to the Sumerians, who owned the cities?
a. The kings b. The nobles and other elites c. The priests d. The gods and goddesses e. The people
Grenville moved smuggling trials from civil courts to vice-admiralty courts because
a. the civil courts had too many cases. b. the harsh penalties handed down by civil courts drove up black market prices and actually increased smuggling. c. colonial smugglers found sympathetic juries in civil courts. d. rival factions in Parliament had control of judges in civil courts.