Add to ORKGThere is a payoff in studying women\u27s history. European History Advanced Placement high school students learned this in May 1978, when they had a chance to demonstrate knowledge of women\u27s history in answering a document-based question dealing with the education of women from the time of the Renaissance to the early eighteenth century. The Advanced Placement examination is divided into three parts: a multiple-choice section testing knowledge of the narrative history of Europe from 1450 to the present (75 minutes); one essay chosen from six topics dealing with major themes (45 minutes); and a required essay based on carefully selected and edited documents which students must read and synthesize (60 minutes). Neither students nor teache...