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Shelles

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Which of the following does not reflect an accurate description of the budget of a working-class family in an urban area?
 
  A) The main breadwinner in a family typically made less than 300 per year.
  B) Approximately 70 percent of a family's income went towards food and rent.
  C) To meet basic needs, many working-class children had to work.
  D) Most families lived close to the margin.
  E) Skyrocketing commodity prices pushed many families to the edge of starvation.

Question 2

In his 1837 address The American Scholar, Ralph Waldo Emerson argued that Americans needed to
 
  A) improve their literature by emulating European forms.
  B) trust themselves rather than rely on Europeans for their sense of culture.
  C) create literature that conformed to universal standards of beauty and taste.
  D) reform their education system.
  E) to turn away from scholarship and concentrate on farming.



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Answer to Question 1

E

Answer to Question 2

B



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