During the 1880s and 1890s, which new obligation was added to the traditional middle-class woman's role as director of the household?
A) She had to cultivate her special maternal gifts, especially her sensitivity toward children and her aptitude for religion.
B) She had to seek outlets for her creative energies outside the home.
C) She had to foster an artistic environment that would nurture her family's cultural improvement.
D) She had to foster a home environment which would encourage her husband to share both his breadwinning duties and her homemaking duties
E) She had to be the moral beacon shining light across a sea of male decadence
Question 2
What was the importance of culture for American Victorians?
A) It helped to separate the lower classes from the respectable middle classes.
B) It was agency vehicle for social uplift that could help those Americans aspiring to middle-class status.
C) It was a code word for decadence, they believed, because art museums were repositories of immoral works.
D) It was a derogatory term generally used to describe the lower classes' cheap copies of famous paintings.
E) It represented European life and was therefore considered un-American.
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