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Paule Marshall’s Brown Girl, Brownstones (1959) was a landmark in the depiction of female characters in Black American literature. Marshall avoided the oppressed and tragic heroine in conflict with White society that had been typical of the protest novels of the early twentieth century. Like her immediate predecessors, Zora Neale Hurston and Gwendolyn Brooks, she focused her novel on an ordinary Black woman’s search for identity within the context of a Black community. But Marshall extended the analysis of Black female characters begun by Hurston and Brooks by depicting her heroine’s development in terms of the relationship between her Barbadian American parents, and by exploring how male and female roles were defined by their immigrant culture, which in turn was influenced by the materialism of White America. By placing characters within a wider cultural context, Marshall attacked racial and sexual stereotypes and paved the way for explorations of race, class, and gender in the novels of the 1970’s. The author’s description of the way in which Marshall depicts her heroine’s development is most probably intended to:

A. continue the discussion of similarities in the works of Brooks, Hurston, and Marshall.
B. describe the specific racial and sexual stereotypes that Marshall attacked.
C. contrast the characters in Marshall’s novels with those in later works.
D. show how Marshall extends the portrayal of character initiated by her predecessors.
E. compare themes in Marshall’s early work with themes in her later novels.

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Some recent historians have argued that life in the British colonies in America from approximately 1763 to 1789 was marked by internal conflicts among colonists. Inheritors of some of the viewpoints of early twentieth-century Progressive historians such as Beard and Becker, these recent historians have put forward arguments that deserve evaluation. The kind of conflict most emphasized by these historians is class conflict. Yet with the Revolutionary War dominating these years, how does one distinguish class conflict within that larger conflict Certainly not by the side a person supported. The author most likely refers to historians such as Beard and Becker in order to:

A. isolate the two historians whose work is most representative of the viewpoints of Progressive historians.
B. emphasize the need to find connections between recent historical writing and the work of earlier historians.
C. make a case for the importance of the views of the Progressive historians concerning eighteenth-century American life.
D. suggest that Progressive historians were the first to discover the particular internal conflicts in eighteenth-century American life mentioned in the passage.
E. point out historians whose views of history anticipated some of the views of the recent historians mentioned in the passage.

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From the 1900’s through the 1950’s waitresses in the United States developed a form of unionism based on the unions’ defining the skills that their occupation included and enforcing standards for the performance of those skills. This occupational unionism differed substantially from the worksite unionism prevalent among factory. workers. Rather than unionizing the workforces of particular employers, waitress locals sought to control their occupation throughout a city. Occupational unionism operated through union hiring halls, which provided free placement services to employers who agreed to hire their personnel only through the union. Hiring halls offered union waitresses collective employment security, not individual job security—a basic protection offered by worksite unions. That is, when a waitress lost her job, the local did not intervene with her employer but placed her elsewhere; and when jobs were scarce, the work hours available were distributed fairly among all members rather than being assigned according to seniority. The author of the passage mentions particular employers primarily in order to

A. suggest that occupational unions found some employers difficult to satisfy.
B. indicate that the occupational unions served some employers but not others.
C. emphasize the unique focus of occupational unionism.
D. accentuate the hostility of some employers toward occupational unionism.
E. point out a weakness of worksite unionism.