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jparksx

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Professor Kimura is giving a lecture about the demographic transition. She is describing a stage in which the birth rate remains high but the death rate declines. What stage is this?
 
  a. first stage
  b. second stage
  c. third stage
  d. fourth stage

Question 2

Tula is a 17-year-old Indian girl whose parents are forcing her to marry a man who is nine years her senior. Tula must drop out of school, and it is likely that she will be pregnant within the year, which is what happened to her mother.
 
  Her mother seems to push for this arrangement as much as her father does. What best explains this, as discussed in the text? a. Her mother would be subject to arrest if she voiced her displeasure to her husband.
   b. Her mother enjoys marriage and wants her daughter to hurry and have the same experience.
   c. Both women and men are shaped by the culture in which they are raised, and they are indoctrinated or socialized to their culture.
   d. Women gain status by being a grandparent.



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Answer to Question 1

b

Answer to Question 2

c



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