Correct. The answer is a. Roosevelt believed that sports were important for maintaining a healthy, strong body and building a manly citizenry. He stressed that while participation in amateur sports was the best way to strengthen the citizenry, professional sports only distracted athletes from the important social, economic, and political issues of the time.

Incorrect. The answer is a. Roosevelt believed that sports were important for maintaining a healthy, strong body and building a manly citizenry. He stressed that while participation in amateur sports was the best way to strengthen the citizenry, professional sports only distracted athletes from the important social, economic, and political issues of the time.

Correct. The answer is b. Sergeant’s article accepts that education is a good thing for women. Her characters are not debating education, but rather its purpose in modernizing America. Should women be educated in order to make them better mothers and domestic beings? Should they be educated to serve as social workers? Or should they be educated to pursue the same careers as men?

Incorrect. The answer is b. Sergeant’s article accepts that education is a good thing for women. Her characters are not debating education, but rather its purpose in modernizing America. Should women be educated in order to make them better mothers and domestic beings? Should they be educated to serve as social workers? Or should they be educated to pursue the same careers as men?

Correct. The answer is b. In his speech, Washington argued that African Americans needed to obtain education and vocational skills that would facilitate their economic success. Only after they were economically prosperous and independent, he suggested, could whites begin to respect African Americans and treat them equally.

Incorrect. The answer is b. In his speech, Washington argued that African Americans needed to obtain education and vocational skills that would facilitate their economic success. Only after they were economically prosperous and independent, he suggested, could whites begin to respect African Americans and treat them equally.

Correct. The answer is c. Gilman’s thinking was influenced and shaped by the currents of feminism and Darwinism. Her arguments were based on the feminist notion that women were essentially equals to men and on the Darwinist notion that women’s economic dependence on men was an adaptation to the social and cultural subordination of their sex.

Incorrect. The answer is c. Gilman’s thinking was influenced and shaped by the currents of feminism and Darwinism. Her arguments were based on the feminist notion that women were essentially equals to men and on the Darwinist notion that women’s economic dependence on men was an adaptation to the social and cultural subordination of their sex.