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Question 1

Which of the following enabled city dwellers of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries to live in greater comfort and safety?
 
  a. Indoor plumbing, central heating systems, and the adoption of public health regulations.
  b. The increased use of coal-burning stoves
  c. Pollution control legislation
  d. Government financing of low-income housing

Question 2

Twentieth-century existentialists drew from Fyodor Dostoevsky
 
  a. an aversion to the Western tradition.
  b. a person's need for a simultaneous revolt against established norms and his search for meaning.
  c. a deep love for the mysticism at the heart of Orthodox Christianity.
  d. the conviction that existential absurdity is cured by spiritual nihilism.
  e. the conclusion that freedom of choice is an incomparable source of deeply spiritual joy.



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Both answers were spot on, thank you once again



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