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The primary function of the highlighted sentence is to
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The author implies that red fire ants in the United States differ from red fire ants in South America in the extent to which ants in the two environments
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Which of the following best states the main idea of the passage?
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According to the passage, autobiography differs from the slave narrative in that autobiographers
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The passage suggests which of the following about Hammon's Narrative and Jacob's Incidents ?
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Which of the following, if true, most strongly undermines the author's argument about the content and structure of slave narratives?
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Tao Zhu and Yaobin Lu found that personality traits can affect user adoption of mobile commerce, suggesting that a mobile service provider could benefit from ____________ the market, specifically targeting extroverts, for instance.
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Stars are not ____________ like people, they are born, they live, and then they die.
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Which of the following, if true, most strengthens the argument?
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Faced with the paucity of surviving texts by mid-eighteenth-century American women, historians interested in women's experience have proven resourceful at using nontextual sources. Recently, Laurel Thatcher Ulrich has turned to objects hand-sewn by New England women, maintaining that objects such as sheets, pillowcases, and quilts reveal the "flow of common life" while providing a context for political events. Discerning the historical significance of these handmade objects is not easy, however. Between today and eighteenth-century New England there looms a formidable nineteenth-century mythology that romanticized that earlier, colonial era, with its houschold production system, as a simpler time of hard work and virtuous self-sufficiency. This myth emerged as compensation for the extreme wealth and poverty generated by industrialization. As household production declined, and factory-made, store-bought goods became widespread, antiquarians avidly collected and displayed the handmade objects of their idealized forebears. Attentive to the ideological distortions of nineteenth-century mythmaking, most historians are wary of trying to discern the original meaning of colonial objects, assuming that, nowadays, such objects reveal more about nineteenth-century collectors than about eighteenth-century users. By contrast, rather than disparaging the mythmakers, Ulrich thanks them for saving so many objects made and used by ordinary women.
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The passage is primarily concerned with discussing
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The passage identifies which of the following as a source of difficulty for historians attempting to draw conclusions from the hand-sewn objects referred to in the passage?
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Regarding the “myth,” it can be inferred that Ulrich would probably disagree with most historians over
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Fara's book is no ordinary account of how scientific knowledge has accumulated. Instead, Fara focuses on how science has been guided by social and political factors. Her aim is to (i)____________ the notion of science as an objective search for truth. The study is an impressive (ii)___________ the idealization of science. Yet Fara takes her argument too far by (iii)_____________ how the knowledge produced by science relates to the external world: she treats all theories as equal, regardless of whether they are supported by evidence.
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Whereas unimaginative novelists were once routinely accused of simply changing the personal names in works that would otherwise have been (i)_____________, today it is more common to learn, conversely, that a genuine piece of (ii)____________ has been (iii)__________ a writer's true confessions.
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