What did American writer John Keats mean when he wrote in The Crack in the Picture Window that Americans could purchase a "box" in a suburban development "inhabited by people whose age, income, number of children, problems, habits,
conversation, dress, possessions, and perhaps even blood type are also precisely like [theirs]"? A) Suburban homes were made affordable because of standardized construction.
B) Suburban living encouraged mindless conformity and a lack of diversity.
C) Suburbanites usually lived in isolation from each other.
D) Suburban living was limited to the upper class.
B
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A) the use of modern advertising B) the physical mobility of Americans C) blurred class distinctions in America D) the increased quality of these goods
In the late nineteenth century, those political candidates who campaigned by "waving the bloody shirt" were reminding voters
a. of the sacrifices of Union soldiers and the "treason" of southern Democrats. b. that the Civil War had been caused by the election of a Republican president. c. of the corrupt radical Reconstruction regimes in the South. d. that radical Republicans catered to freed slaves during Reconstruction. e. of Ku Klux Klan violence against blacks.
What was the language of the Romans?
A) French B) Italian C) Greek D) Latin
The assassination of the Archduke Ferdinand was ________ the start of World War I
A) a pretext for B) the trigger of C) the long-term cause of D) what marked