Author Question: The belief that people should let the Common School be expanded to its capabilitiesand nine tenths ... (Read 38 times)

anshika · **on:** Sep 21, 2019

Question 1

How did changes in religious belief influence ideas about prison and punishment?

A) The prison system began to cast criminal behavior in terms of sinfulness and innate depravity.
B) Prisoners and the mentally ill were housed together in wretched conditions.
C) Prisons became penitentiaries where prisoners had opportunities to repent and reform.
D) Prisoners were given greater access to educational resources and public speaking events.

Question 2

What common public misconception about Rosie the Riveter developed as a result of the Norman Rockwell Saturday Evening Post cover and J. Howard Miller's We Can Do It poster?

A) Both the Rockwell cover and the Miller poster show their subjects wearing wedding rings,
meaning that most women in the war work force were married instead of single.
B) Neither image addresses the domestic role women played, including food production at home.
C) The Rockwell cover actually portrays a true riveter in a defense job, while the Miller poster
shows a Westinghouse Electric employee whose purpose was to promote company unity.
D) The Rockwell cover portrays a mannish-looking woman without makeup, while the Miller
poster shows a prim young lady with makeup, something not possible during World War II.

Question 3

How did the Brooklyn Bridge, which symbolized the new urban and industrial era of the late 1800s, also mark the transition from an earlier era?

A) The bridge linked the largest and third-largest cities in the United States, symbolizing the
connections between the East and the West.
B) Emily Warren Roebling's role as onsite supervisor reflected the independent woman, a role
valued in earlier times.
C) The bridge itself was made of steel, an ancient construction material.
D) The towers were built with stone and were formed into gothic archways, a medieval design.

Question 4

The belief that people should let the Common School be expanded to its capabilitiesand nine tenths of the crimes in the penal code would become obsolete; the long catalogue of human ills would be abridged, reflects the idea that universal

public education was a __________ style of reform. A) preventive
B) curative
C) remedial
D) utopian