According to the author, it was difficult for her daughter and Jewel to get together for play dates. What reason did the author give?
a. Jewel's parents did not live in Montclair.
b. Jewel really didn't like Andrea.
c. Jewel's parents, who are African American, didn't like white people.
d. Andrea was intellectually superior to Jewel.
Question 2Which is not a pull factor behind suburbanization?
a. lower taxes
b. lower crime rates
c. lower-cost housing
d. high taxes
e. none of the above
Question 3Population in the underdeveloped countries
a. is growing at a rate about four times that in the developed countries
b. has, in recent years, begun to grow at a rate similar to that found in the
developed countries
c. is growing at a rate only slightly faster than that found in the developed world
d. is, contrary to popular belief, not really growing at all
Question 4The underdeveloped countries have been historically specialized in terms of
a. silk, bananas, and diamonds
b. the production of raw agricultural and mineral products
c. gold, silver, and aluminum
d. microchips and electronics
Question 5Sanderson and Alderson argue that an important factor contributing to Japan being the first non-Western society to achieve the status of an industrial society was its
a. religious values resembling Protestantism
b. large size and low level of population density
c. historical isolation from the capitalist world-economy for approximately two and a half centuries
Question 6Since the mid-nineteenth century, the dual objectives of educational reformers-- __________ and __________-- have been intermingled; sometimes so completely that it is impossible to distinguish between the two.
a. better classrooms / more teachers
b. more money for education / higher salaries for teachers
c. equality of opportunity / social control
d. larger schools / better resources to staff them
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