(D) advocate an empirical approach to women's experience on the western frontier
(E) resolve ambiguities in several theories about women's experience on the western frontier
2. Which of the following can be inferred about the novelists and historians mentioned in lines 19-20?
(A) They misunderstood the powerful influence of constrictive stereotypes on women in the East
(B) They assumed that the frontier had offered more opportunities to women than had the East
(C) They included accurate information about women's experience on the frontier
(D) They underestimated the endurance and fortitude of frontier women
(E) They a美国GREed with some of Turner's assumptions about frontier women， but disa美国GREed with other assumptions that he made.
3.Which of the following， if true， would provide additional evidence for the Stasists' argument as it is described in the passage?
(A) Frontier women relied on smaller support groups of relatives and friends in the West than they had in the East
(B) The urban frontier in the West offered more occupational opportunity than the agricultural frontier offered
(C) Women participated more fully in the economic decisions of the family group in the West than they had in the East
(D) Western women received financial compensation for labor that was comparable to what women received in the East
(E) Western women did not have an effect on divorce laws， but lawmakers in the West were more responsive to women's concerns than lawmakers in the East were
4. According to the passage， Turner makes which of the following connections in his Frontier Thesis?
I. A connection between American individualism and economic equality
II. A connection between geographical expansion and social change
III. A connection between social change and financial prosperity
(A) I only
(B) II only
(C) III only
(D) I and II only
(E) I， II and III