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