Please somebody help me I need an answer or Im gonna fail because I’m confused and report cards come tomorrow btw this story is called The Golden Lotus A history of Foot Binding by Jessica McBirney 1. Part A What does the word emulate most closely mean as it is used in paragraph 3

A. To worship or praise

B. To outdo or rival

C. To copy or follow

D. To mock or make fun of

2. Part B Which phrase from the paragraph best supports the answer to Part A

A. “Her dancing was so beautiful”

B. “elite women everywhere”

C. “her gracefulness”

D.”became increasingly popular”

3. Part A Which of the following best indentifes a central idea of this text

A. Foot binding was a practice that started in China in 970 BCE and spread all over the world

B. Foot binding was a critical advancement in modern medicine, even though a lot of women had to suffer to acquire knowledge about it.

C. Foot binding was considered necessary for a woman to attain beauty ideals and social status, at the cost of tremendous pain and physical risk

D. Foot binding was outlawed by oppressive governmental regimes that suppressed women’s freedom and right to her body

4. Part B Which phrase from the text best supports the answer to part A

A. Foot binding is the custom of wrapping a young girls feel tightly and painfully in strips of cloths to stunt future growth of the foot

B. Three Chinese inches (four western inches) was the ideal length for a woman’s foot such as achievement was called the Golden Lotus

C. Women had many reasons for binding their feet despite the pain.

D. The 1949 communist regime harshly criticized the custom and the last reported case of foot binding was in 1957