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Lobcity

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According to Scheper-Hughes in Mother's Love: Death Without Weeping, three of the following statements are true about how the death of poor babies were treated in Alto do Cruzeiro and Bom Jesus de Mata, Brazil. Which one is not?
 
  a. Babies were buried without headstones or markers.
  b. Infant graves were reused for other infant burials later.
  c. Midwives encouraged mothers of dead babies to grieve.
  d. Civil authorities only required a two-paragraph report when a baby died.

Question 2

In an epilogue to her article Mother's Love: Death Without Weeping, Scheper-Hughes argues that the primary cause of the decline in infant mortality on the Alto do Cruzeiro was a result of
 
  a. national health care agents going door to door to identify at-risk infants.
  b. the installation of water pipes that carried clean water to virtually every home in the shantytown.
  c. an infant training program offered by a North American mission.
  d. the under-the-counter availability of a morning after pill.



jliusyl

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Answer to Question 1

Correct Answer: c

Answer to Question 2

Correct Answer: b



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