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Questions 20 – 22 refer to the image below. Photo of a unit of the Mocidade Portuguesa Feminina (Portuguese Women’s Youth Organization) in front of a monument to Henry the Navigator, Lisbon, late 1930s.    21. The ideology represented in the image had which of the following effects on neighboring Spain?

When a projectile such as a gold ball flies through the air, if air resistance is small enough to be negligible, then

Questions 48-50 refer to the passage below.  “Unfortunately, Americans focus more on Soviet military hardware than on [Soviets’] limited political prestige. That is responsible for your overestimation of Soviet power, as if power in history is the same asforce of arms! What myopia and short-sightedness. There is more power in rock music, videos, blue jeans, fast food, news networks and TV satellites than in the entire Red Army.” Régis Debray, leftist French philosopher, 1986 50.  All of the following statements about Debray are factually accurate. Which one would be most useful in evaluating his perspective in the passage?

Questions 33-34 refer to the passage below. “Woman has always been man’s dependent, if not his slave; the two sexes have never shared the world in equality. Even when her rights are legally recognized in the abstract, long-standing custom prevents their full expression in the mores. In the economic sphere men and women can almost be said to make up two castes; other things being equal, [men] hold the better jobs, get higher wages, and have more opportunity for success than their new competitors [women].” Simone de Beauvois, The Second Sex, 1949 33.  The phrase, “even when her rights are legally recognized in the abstract,” most likely refers to

If you double the diameter of a sphere, the surface area of the sphere will

Questions 14-16 refer to the song below. “Father Stalin, look at thisCollective farming is just blissThe hut’s in ruins, the barn’s all saggedAll the horses broken nagsAnd on the hut a hammer and sickleAnd in the hut death and famineNo cows left, no pigs at allJust your picture on the wallDaddy and mommy are in the kolkhoz*The poor child cries as alone he goesThere’s no bread and there’s no fatThe Party’s ended all of thatThe Party man he beats and stampsAnd sends us to Siberian camps.” *collective farm Ukrainian underground protest song, 1930s 15.  The Soviet government’s agricultural policies referred to in the song directly resulted in which of the following?

Questions 28-29 refer to the passage below. “The storm has died away, and still we are restless, uneasy, as if the storm were about to break. Almost all the affairs of men remain in a terrible uncertainty. We think of what has disappeared, and we are almost destroyed by what has been destroyed; we do not know what will be born, and we fear the future, not without reason….Doubt and disorder are in us and with us. There is no thinking man, however shrewd or learned he may be, who can hope to dominate this anxiety, to escape from this impression of darkness… But among all these injured things is the mind. The Mind has indeed been cruelly wounded; its complaint has been heard in the hearts of intellectual man. It passes a mournful judgment on itself. It doubts itself profoundly.”  Paul Valery, speech at the University of Zurich, 1922 29.  The views expressed in the passage led to the development of

According to Archimedes’ Principle, the buoyant force experienced by an object floating in water is

What is the approximate acceleration of a 5 kg bucket of paint that is pulled upwards with a force of 75 N? Assume this experiment takes place on Earth’s surface.

Questions 23-27 refer to the following speech to Nazi officers. “I ask of you that that which I say to you in this circle be really only heard and not ever discussed. We were faced with the question: what about the women and children? – I decided to find a clear solution to this problem too. I did not consider myself justified to exterminate the men – in other words, to kill them or have them killed and allow the avengers of our sons and grandsons in the form of their children to grow up. The difficult decision had to be made to have this people disappear from the earth. For the organisation which had to execute this task, it was the most difficult which we had ever had. I felt obliged to you, as the most superior dignitary, as the most superior dignitary of the party, this political order, this political instrument of the Führer, to also speak about this question quite openly and to say how it has been. The Jewish question in the countries that we occupy will be solved by the end of this year. Only remainders of odd Jews that managed to find hiding places will be left over.” Heinrich Himmler, Reichsführer (Leader) of the SS, October 1943 23.  The passage provides evidence for which of the following aspects of the Second World War?