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<p>"The fifth class comprises large numbers of the population that have no occupation; but it requires no argument to prove that the wife, the mother, the mistress of an English family--fills offices and sicharges duties of no ordinary importance; or that children are or should be occupied in filial or household duties, and in the task of education, either at home or at school. This onception of women had been developing over a long period. (for example, in the late seventeenth-century, trade tokens used by local shopkeepers and small masters in) family businesses carried the initials of the man's and the woman's first names and the couple's surname, but by the late eigteenth century, only the initials of the male proprietor were retained. "</p>
<p>-parentheses is lines 37-38</p>
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<li>The author of Passage 1 considers trade tokens (lines 37-38) as evidence against the prevalence of a fifth class in the seventeenth century because they</li>
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<p>A) served as legal currency
B) were issued to both middle-class and working-class women
C) helped neutralize gender stereotypes of the day
D) failed to identify women by their names and positions
E) identified men and women as partners in business</p>
<p>CB 2nd Edition Test 4 Section 2 #15</p>