Oops, you forgot the little passage but I have this packet too! :)
A. She was a public leader of a reform movement.
Dix was a leader of reforms for the treatment of the mentally ill. In the passage, she is mentioned as an expectation because she take a leadership role in her reform movement.
There are four major types of employee benefits many employers offer: medical insurance, life insurance, disability insurance, and retirement plans.
I believe the answer is: italians take over and change white and black cultural traditions
The author make a reference on the migration of italian citizens to united states (mostly new york and chicago). The italian immigrants brought a mafia culture to united states which back than were in a fight for dominance for black and white culture.
Context is what something is contained of. So explaining the context of a story, means to explain what the story means, or what the story is about.