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Below are the questions for the exam with the choices of answers:
Question #1
A FALSE
B TRUE
Question #2
A was a sharp critic of the ideas of integration and nonviolence.
B coined the term “Black Power” in 1966.
C alarmed whites by wearing military garb when he spoke at gatherings.
D insisted that blacks work alongside whites to achieve civil and political rights.
E spoke out against the possibility of interracial cooperation after a trip to Mecca, Saudi Arabia in 1964.
Question #3
A TRUE
B FALSE
Question #4
A invites readers to scream out against corporate leaders, politicians, and military men who dominate government and society and deny Americans the ability to formulate available choices.
B documents how corporate bureaucracies had transformed employees into “organization men” who can’t think for themselves.
C examines rebellious youth better known as juvenile delinquents.
D describes Americans as “other-directed” basically conformists who can’t live truly independent lives because they lack the inner resources.
E is a brilliant protest against materialism and conformism and written while he was under the influence of hallucinogenic drugs.
Question #5
A placed importance on respect for basic liberties.
B was an example of how President Ford dismissed Nixon’s policy of Detente.
C dismantled Europe’s post-World War II boundaries.
D froze each countries arsenal of intercontinental missiles.
Question #6
A TRUE
B FALSE
Question #7
A His visit to China in 1972 leads to Beijing taking up China’s seat at the United Nations.
B He became the first American President to visit the Soviet Union.
C He sent troops into neutral Cambodia hoping to cut off North Vietnam’s supply line.
D By improving relations with the Soviets he believed they would influence North Vietnam to end the war.
E He and his Secretary of State Henry Kissinger were more interested in power than ideology.
Question #8
A how to achieve the suburban dream.
B a society that deemed marriage and motherhood as inadequate.
C embracing personal freedom through public smoking and drinking.
D the emptiness of consumer culture.
E the lack of opportunities for educated women.
Question #9
A understood freedom as first and foremost a moral condition.
B supported strongly the notion of unregulated capitalism.
C believed that individual autonomy was the cornerstone of any free society.
D were opposed to a strong national government as a bitter reaction against the New Deal.
Question #10
A Eisenhower wants to distance the Republican Party from its identification with the Great Depression.
B Core New Deal programs are kept in place.
C President Eisenhower presides over the largest public-works enterprise, the interstate highway system.
D Eisenhower supported increased government spending to greatly expand the military.
E The National Defense Education Act offered direct federal funding to higher education.
Question #11
A A bomb exploding at a black Baptist church in Birmingham, killing four young girls.
B Martin Luther King Jr. delivers his famous speech “I have a dream” to a gathering of 250,000 black and white Americans.
C Medgar Evers, field secretary of the NAACP is killed by sniper fire.
D Kennedy reads “Letters from a Birmingham Jail” an eloquent plea for racial justice written by MLK while serving a nine day prison term in Birmingham.
E The images, broadcast on television, of schoolchildren being assaulted by police.
Question #12
A The poverty rate increased by 1959.
B The 1950s appeared as the last decade of industrial strength in the United States.
C The South benefited from government contracts for air craft, guided missiles, and radar systems.
D The West became the home of numerous military bases and government-funded shipyards.
E By 1956, blue-collar workers outnumbered white-collar workers.