Mary Lynn Crow is negative about Sesame Street because she thinks it ______.
A. only touches up superficial relationships
B. is too complicated for children to understand
C. goes against ways of traditional education
D. repeats basic knowledge over and over again
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The word facilitate in Paragraph 1 is closest in meaning to______.
A. help
B. stop
C. change
D. establish
The word lessen in Paragraph 1 is closest in meaning to______.
A. reduce
B. prevent
C. increase
D. change
According to the passage, which of the following is true of barter?
A. Barter does not exist in the world today any more.
Barter is much easier than the use of money in exchange.
C. Barter makes the exchange of commodities more complex.
D. Barter was practiced only in very ancient civilizations.
According to Paragraph 2, why did the gold coins used in the United States before 1933 belong to the category of commodity money?
A. Because they were made of the precious metal gold and hence very valuable.
Because they could be used to exchange commodities and were called commodity money.
C. Because the value of a coin was the same as the value of the gold in the coin.
D. Because the value of the gold contained in a coin was more than the value of the coin.