Thursday, August 25, 2005

History 344: Midterm Exam

I thought it would be fun to post some of my answers from my exam book. It's a twenty-four-page booklet manufactured by Henry S. Wolkins Co. with a reorder number W2024. It has a light blue cover and pages with a red vertical line on the left and nineteen blue horizontal lines.

What can you tell from a teapot?

"The decorative flowery patterns and the delicate shape of the teaport indicates that tea-drinking was a leisure activity in the Colonial America, and the tea-trading industry was thriving at that time. The standard of living is also enhanced by the thriving economy, and some people like the elites could afford this kind of extravagant consumer goods in the era of consumer revolution."

What's "feme covert"?

"It refers to females who were married and, as a result, their property belong to their husbands. Married women did not have any political rights, and, in other words, they are "legally dead" in terms of their identity."

What's up with the Radical Whigs?

"They believed that power is evil, and liberty is feminine and vulnerable. The liberty desired by the populace could easily be destroyed by the power of the Government."

No comments: