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Which of the following is NOT a common myth and stereotype about the elderly?
 
  a. Older people lose their mental faculties.
  b. The elderly are sexually inactive.
  c. Older women are hypochondriacs with more health problems than men.
  d. Older women are confined to rocking chairs and knitting.
  e. Older women have a strong sense of personal identity and independence.

Question 2

In 2007, the Supreme Court reversed the landmark precedent set in the 1954 Brown v.
 
  Board of Education decision against school segregation, ruling that voluntary policies designed to select students based on race in order to achieve more integrated classrooms are __________.
   a. illegal
   b. racist
   c. discriminatory
   d. unconstitutional
   e. prejudicial



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Answer to Question 1

e

Answer to Question 2

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