When Researching Death Without Weeping, What Was the Most Common

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Multiple Choice

When researching Death Without Weeping, what was the most common request that Scheper-Hughes received from women in the Alto?

• A) Help obtaining a clandestine sterilization.
• B) Help getting antibiotics for a sick child.
• C) Food for children and families.
• D) That she tell their stories to authorities.

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Definitions:

Thermal Expansion

The expansion of material as it is heated, such as heating and cooling that cause different minerals, or different parts of a rock, to expand and contract by different amounts.

Barrier Islands

Narrow, elongated islands lying parallel to the coast, formed largely of sand, protecting the coast from erosion and storms.

Coastal Accumulations

The build-up of sedimentary materials, such as sand and gravel, along coastlines due to oceanic and tidal movements.

Shallow

relating to an area of water that is not deep.