(^224) › STEP 5. Build Your Test-Taking Confidence
- Mill subscribed to which view of human nature?
A. People are born evil and corrupt.
B. People are generally good and will do the
right thing most times.
C. Men and women have natures that are sub-
stantially different from one another.
D. People are born tabula rasa—a blank slate.
52. According to the passage, Mill advocated
which of the following?
A. The abolition of marriage
B. Equal opportunity for women
C. Social engineering of a better society
D. Social Darwinism
Questions 53–55 refer to the following passage:As with a Commander of the Army, or leader of any enterprise, so it is with the mistress of the house. Her spirit will
be seen through the whole establishment; and just in proportion as she performs her duties intelligently and thor-
oughly, so will her domestics follow in her path. Of all of those acquirements, which more particularly belong to the
feminine character, there are none which take a higher rank, in our estimation, than such as enter into a knowledge
of household duties; for on these are perpetually dependent the happiness, comfort, and well-being of the family.
Isabella Beeton, Book of Household Management, 1861- Beeton’s book treats which subject?
A. The role of women in army regiments
B. The running of a school for domestic servants
C. The running of a school for girls
D. The role of a woman in running her own
domestic household - Beeton believed that
A. women were better suited than men for the
task of household management
B. women were better suited than men to run
schools
C. men were better suited than women for the
task of household management
D. men were better suited than women to run
schools
55. Beeton was prompted to write the book because
of which of the following situations?
A. Women held considerable power and respon-
sibility in the public sphere of social life.
B. Women were denied power and responsibil-
ity in the public sphere of social life.
C. Women held considerable power and respon-
sibility within the domestic sphere of social
life.
D. Women were denied power and responsi-
bility within the domestic sphere of social
life.
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