Singer's New Sewing Machine

question 27

Multiple Choice

Singer's new sewing machine

• A)bound many women to the hectic pace of piecework.
• B)liberated women from the drudgery of knitting.
• C)allowed men to do what used to be "women's work."
• D)created new demand for needles.
• E)allowed even novices to do expert work.

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Definitions:

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The ability to analyze, evaluate, judge, compare, and contrast; it is one of the three types of intelligence proposed by Sternberg's triarchic theory of intelligence.

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