Please answer these questions ASAP Question 1 (2 points)

In the seventeenth-century Florentine textile industry, women were employed primarily in low-paying, low-skill jobs. To explain this segregation of labor by gender, economists have relied on the useful theory of human capital. According to this theory, investment in human capital—the acquisition of difficult job-related skills—generally benefits individuals by making them eligible to engage in well-paid occupations. Women's role as child bearers, however, results in interruptions in their participation in the job market (as compared with men's) and thus reduces their opportunities to acquire training for highly skilled work. In addition, the human capital theory explains why there was a high concentration of women workers in certain low-skill jobs, such as weaving, but not in others, such as combing or carding, by positing that because of their primary responsibility in child rearing women took occupations that could be carried out in the home.

According to the passage above, women were "employed in primarily low-paying, low skill jobs." How do economists explain this phenomenon? Check all that apply

THERE ARE 3 CORRECT ANSWERS

A) Women had gaps in their participation in the job market.
B) Women's roles as child bearers interrupted their availability.
C) Women were not as capable as men and did not want harder jobs.
D) Women took lower paying jobs that could be carried out in the home.

Question 2 (2 points)

Rhetorically, (Frederick) Douglass was a master of irony, as illustrated by his famous Fourth of July speech in 1852: “This Fourth of July is yours, not mine. You may rejoice, I must mourn,” he declared. Then he accused his unsuspecting audience in Rochester, New York, of mockery for inviting him to speak and quoted Psalm 137, where the children of Israel are forced to sit down “by the rivers of Babylon,” there to “sing the Lord’s song in a strange land.” For the ways that race have caused the deepest contradictions in American history, few better sources of insight exist than Douglass’s speeches. Moreover, for understanding prejudice, there are few better starting points than his timeless definition of racism as a “diseased imagination.”

After reading the above passage: Use your knowledge to explain what Douglas meant by these sentences: “This Fourth of July is yours, not mine. You may rejoice, I must mourn.

A) Douglas did not celebrate the 4th of July.
B) Douglas felt that as a slave/former slave that he was not truly free.
C) Douglas believed the fourth was a fake holiday.

Question 3 (2 points)

THERE ARE 3 CORRECT ANSWERS

Why did the Industrial Revolution begin in England?

A) Shortage of labor
B) Abundance of coal
C) Access to waterways
D) Government support
E) Lack of investors

Question 4 (2 points)

In 1800 Europeans occupied or controlled about 34 percent of the land surface of the world; by 1914 this had risen to 84 percent.

According to this phrase how much did the area controlled by Europeans increase?

A) 34 percent
B) 84 percent
C) 50 percent

Question 5 (2 points)

Which did NOT prompt European imperialism in the late nineteenth century?

A) Advanced technology
B) Zeal for missionary work
C) Need for raw materials