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Part A

Short-Answer Questions

Directions:

Analyze the documents and answer the questions that follow in the space provided.

Document 1

Seven Feminine Virtues

Ban Zhao, a scholar and teacher during the Han Dynasty, B.C. 202-220 A.D.

1. What were two rules women were expected to follow during the Han Dynasty? [2]

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Reproduced from the August 2001

Global History and Geography Regents Exam

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As a woman, she should always be modest and respectful, should keep herself con-

stantly in the background, whatever she does, should never speak of her own goodness

or flinch [back away] from the performance of her assigned duties . . . and finally,

should be able to endure all the humiliations and insults, from wherever they come.

This is . . . the acknowledgement of her own inferiority - her inability to live up to it

should be her constant worry and fear.