Charles Baudelaire Was Forced to Remove Six Poems from His

question 37

Multiple Choice

Charles Baudelaire was forced to remove six poems from his book Les Fleurs du mal because they

• A) criticized the French government.
• B) had themes of lesbianism and vampirism.
• C) presented a romanticized view of death.
• D) celebrated the lives of French prostitutes.

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Definitions:

P-value

The probability of encountering test data at least as extreme as what has been observed, with the assumption that the null hypothesis is valid.

Two-sided Test

A hypothesis test in which the critical area of a distribution is two-sided and tests whether a sample is either greater than or less than a certain range of values.

One-sided Test

A hypothesis test in which the alternative hypothesis specifies either an increase or a decrease, but not both.

P-value

The probability of obtaining a statistical summary (e.g., the difference in means) at least as extreme as the one observed in a study assuming the null hypothesis is true.