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1
During the Civil War, as described in “The American Civil War, Emancipation, and Reconstruction on the World Stage,” to the international community, the Confederacy claimed the Civil War was primarily concerned with:
A)Northern greed.
B)inheritance rights.
C)unfair taxation.
D)self-determination.
2
White Southerners, as reported in “The American Civil War, Emancipation, and Reconstruction on the World Stage,” sought sanction for their succession on recent history in all of the following countries except:
A)Poland.
B)Spain.
C)Italy.
D)Greece.
3
Both the North and the South, as noted in “The American Civil War, Emancipation, and Reconstruction on the World Stage,” sought international support for their cause.
A)True
B)False
4
As described in "1871 War on Terror," America's first war on terror was against the:
A)New England Indian tribes in the Pequot War.
B)Ku Klux Klan.
C)Apaches under Geronimo.
D)marauding Mexicans during the Texas war for independence.
5
As stated in "1871 War on Terror," terrorism thrives on:
A)ignorance.
B)dissatisfaction among recent immigrants.
C)great turmoil.
D)the lax security of peaceful conditions.
6
As noted in "1871 War on Terror," most Southerners considered the Klan's activities immoral.
A)True
B)False
7
As discussed in "Little Bighorn Reborn," within a year after the Battle of the Little Bighorn:
A)gold was discovered in California and settlers left most of the upper Great Plains in the hands of the natives.
B)the United States declared the closing of the American frontier.
C)Custer faced a court martial and was forced to resign in disgrace.
D)there was not a free Native American left on the Great Plains.
8
As concluded in "Little Bighorn Reborn," the reenactment performed on the anniversary of the Battle of the Little Bighorn:
A)stresses the heroic resistance given by the outnumbered cavalrymen.
B)is based on interview with a Cheyenne veteran of the battle.
C)follows the largely mythical account of the battle given in a 1950s John Wayne film.
D)reflects the account of two surviving soldiers that was published shortly after the battle.
9
As stated in "Little Bighorn Reborn," many Native Americans continue to resent the fact that the battlefield is named after George Custer.
A)True
B)False
10
According to “Gifts of the ‘Robber Barons’,” the greatest blemish on the reputation of Andrew Carnegie was:
A)the pollution of the Ohio River caused by U.S. Steel.
B)insider trading in shipbuilding stocks.
C)the lockout and strike at the Homestead Steel Works.
D)sweetheart deals for cronies.
11
As reported in “Gifts of the ‘Robber Barons’,” the motivation of Andrew Carnegie’s philanthropy was:
A)guilt.
B)that he thought it was the right thing to do.
C)religious conviction.
D)a desire to affect public opinion.
12
As related in “Gifts of the ‘Robber Barons’,” Andrew Carnegie was first attracted to the Republican Party because of its antislavery sentiments.
A)True
B)False
13
As given in "The Spark of Genius," the key to Edison's success was that he:
A)aimed to build a technological system and a series of businesses to manage that system.
B)focused exclusively on creating innovative technological systems.
C)was principally concerned with starting businesses and had little interest in the technical aspects of new technology.
D)adhered to a strict work schedule and made time for a life outside his work.
14
As explained in "The Spark of Genius," Edison's insight regarding the incandescent bulb was to push a:
A)large current through a thick wire to a low-resistance filament.
B)small current through a thick wire to a high-resistance filament.
C)large current through a thin wire to a low-resistance filament.
D)small current through a thin wire to a high-resistance filament.
15
As noted in "The Spark of Genius," Edison exemplified the lone inventor working in solitude.
A)True
B)False
16
As reported in “Global Cooling,” refrigerated railroad cars were devised by Gustavus Swift to transport:
A)beer.
B)produce.
C)beef.
D)dairy products.
17
As noted in “Global Cooling,” the insulation used in the nineteenth century to preserve harvested ice was:
A)cotton lint.
B)sawdust.
C)rock salt.
D)cedar planks.
18
As pointed out in “Global Cooling,” ice floats because water expands when it freezes.
A)True
B)False
19
The first woman to mount a serious campaign for U.S. President, as explained in "Lockwood in '84," had a career as a(n):
A)surgeon.
B)university professor.
C)attorney.
D)accountant.
20
Belva Lockwood, as put forth in "Lockwood in '84," gained her chance to pursue her own desires after:
A)her first husband died.
B)her parents left her a small inheritance.
C)she found she could not have children.
D)she made a decision never to marry.
21
The other leaders of the suffrage movement, as pointed out in "Lockwood in '84," were strongly in support of Belva Lockwood's campaign for president.
A)True
B)False
22
As reported in “A Day to Remember: December 29, 1890,” the most influential of all Sioux leaders was:
A)Red Cloud.
B)Short Bull.
C)Kicking Bear.
D)Sitting Bull.
23
As discussed in “A Day to Remember: December 29, 1890,” the new beliefs introduced by the Paiute Wovoka:
A)called for armed uprisings to drive the whites off the prairie.
B)involved the use of hallucinogenic drugs.
C)were never embraced by Kicking Bear.
D)included the rebirth of the dead.
24
As noted in “A Day to Remember: December 29, 1890,” Ghost Dancers believed their garments rendered them impervious to the white man’s bullets.
A)True
B)False
25
As stated in "Where the Other Half Lived," Riis' use of photography of the Bend was critical because:
A)photographs conveyed the living conditions with impact.
B)the photos could easily be copied into newspapers and magazines.
C)Riss was not a writer.
D)the immigrants of the Bend often could not speak English to him.
26
As indicated in "Where the Other Half Lived," Riis' use of maps during his lectures proved inadequate because they:
A)lacked the appeal and impact of photographs.
B)were not three dimensional.
C)conveyed the perception that conditions in the Bend were limited in scope.
D)were misunderstood by the majority of the public.
27
As cited in "Where the Other Half Lived," the death rate of children under five living within the Bend would today rank among the highest in the world.
A)True
B)False
28
As discussed in "The Murder of Lucy Pollard," the newspaperman John Mitchell Jr. was connected to the case of the Pollard killing in Lunenburg County, Virginia, because he:
A)was also an attorney who represented the defendants.
B)was related to two of the defendants, Mary and Pokey Barnes.
C)used his famous paper to help exonerate the three female defendants who many felt had been wrongly accused and convicted.
D)used his position as a banker to establish a defense fund for the three female defendants.
29
According to "The Murder of Lucy Pollard," one of the main reasons why John Mitchell Jr. took over the newspaper (The Richmond Planet) was because:
A)the paper paid more than his former teaching job.
B)he and other black teachers were forced out of their teaching jobs when white Democrats took over the Richmond school board.
C)his heart had always been in writing rather than teaching.
D)his mother's former master used his connections to get him the job.
30
As cited in "The Murder of Lucy Pollard," the real killer was eventually definitively identified as William Henry "Solomon" Marable, who had threatened Lucy Pollard's husband earlier on the day of her murder.
A)True
B)False
31
According to “Joe Hill: ‘I Never Died’,” police suspected Joe Hill in the murders of John and Arling Morrison because:
A)Hill had a large sum of money for which he could not account.
B)Hill had acquired a bullet wound on the night of the crime.
C)the Mormon church despised Joe Hill.
D)there was known to be bad blood between Hill and the Morrisons.
32
As stated in “Joe Hill: ‘I Never Died’,” the Industrial Workers of the World union:
A)contends that the more unions there are, the better.
B)advocates violence in extreme cases.
C)advocates industrial sabotage.
D)no longer exists.
33
The author of “Joe Hill: ‘I Never Died’” maintains that the trial of Joe Hill was by all accounts a shambles.
A)True
B)False
34
In discussing the presidency of Theodore Roosevelt, the author of “Alice Roosevelt Longworth” notes that Roosevelt:
A)was the only bachelor ever to serve as President.
B)was the only Nobel-Prize-winning President.
C)was the youngest president.
D)ruled the country the way he ruled his family.
35
As reported in “Alice Roosevelt Longworth,” when her father prohibited Alice from smoking cigarettes under his roof, she responded by:
A)smoking cigars.
B)setting her room on fire.
C)throwing a temper tantrum.
D)smoking up on the roof.
36
As noted in “Alice Roosevelt Longworth,” her family never called Alice Roosevelt Longworth by her given name.
A)True
B)False
37
According to “A Day to Remember: March 25, 1911 Triangle Fire,” most of the employees of the Triangle Waist Company were:
A)Irish immigrants.
B)African Americans.
C)middle aged men.
D)young women.
38
As pointed out in “A Day to Remember: March 25, 1911 Triangle Fire,” the Greene Street exit to the Asch Building was:
A)impassable on the day of the fire.
B)limited as an exit because of partitions.
C)where the fire began.
D)routinely locked from the outside.
39
As stated in “A Day to Remember: March 25, 1911 Triangle Fire,” Charles E. Murphy of Tammany Hall supported the 1909 strike by the Women’s Trade Union League.
A)True
B)False
40
As noted in "The Fate of Leo Frank," all of the following are given as reasons why Leo Frank was convicted of murder except that he was:
A)white.
B)a Northerner.
C)a Jew.
D)an industrialist.
41
As presented in "The Fate of Leo Frank," Leo Frank was eventually:
A)lynched by a mob.
B)executed.
C)set free on a legal technicality.
D)proved innocent.
42
As explained in "The Fate of Leo Frank," Frank's conviction for murder was based on very strong evidence.
A)True
B)False
43
According to "The Ambiguous Legacies of Women's Progressivism," female progressive activism left a legacy that included all of the following except:
A)failed to overcome racial divisions.
B)opening a multiplicity of roles for women.
C)winning the right for women to vote.
D)establishing that motherhood and economic independence were incompatible.
44
The specific goals of women Progressives, as outlined in "The Ambiguous Legacies of Women's Progressivism," included all of the following except:
A)equal pay for women and men.
B)abolition of prostitution.
C)prohibition of alcohol.
D)women's suffrage.
45
The author of "The Ambiguous Legacies of Women's Progressivism" states that most women's activism took place through local, regional, and national organizations that women formed around 1900.
A)True
B)False
46
According to “The Enemy Within,” the practitioners of medical science of the day viewed the 1918 flu as:
A)being caused by a bacteria.
B)being caused by a virus.
C)linked to too much time spent indoors.
D)the result of too much immigration.
47
As reported in “The Enemy Within,” in the United States, the Spanish flu epidemic began:
A)in California.
B)in coastal regions.
C)among the military.
D)among recent immigrants from South America.
48
As stated in “The Enemy Within,” more people died in the 1918 flu epidemic in the United States than died of HIV/AIDS from 1981 to 2004.
A)True
B)False
49
According to “A Day to Remember: January 16, 1920,” among those who tended to oppose Prohibition were:
A)Republicans.
B)Southern Democrats.
C)Protestant farmers.
D)eastern European immigrants.
50
As reported in “A Day to Remember: January 16, 1920,” a position on which middle class voters agreed with the Anti-Saloon League was that:
A)alcohol consumption is inherently immoral.
B)there was a connection between radical labor protest and alcohol consumption.
C)women’s suffrage would assure the passage of prohibition.
D)Prohibition must be part of an overall reform of American culture.
51
As noted in “A Day to Remember: January 16, 1920,” industrialists supported the Anti-Saloon League because it diverted attention from pressing issues of wealth and power.
A)True
B)False
52
The author of “Evolution on Trial” concludes that the creation versus evolution trial took place in Dayton because:
A)only John Scopes had the courage to teach evolution in the classroom.
B)it was chosen as the best possible test case.
C)it was a stunt by enterprising town boosters.
D)the people of the town were eager to have the state law changed.
53
As reported in “Evolution on Trial,” in discussing the town of Dayton, H.L. Mencken:
A)made it clear that he hated the town because it was impossible to get a drink there.
B)found it a beautiful country town.
C)was surprised by the intelligence of its residents.
D)pointed out the animosity the trial had engendered among residents.
54
As noted in “Evolution on Trial,” the American Civil Liberties Union offered a reward to anyone who would challenge the Tennessee statute outlawing the teaching of evolution.
A)True
B)False
55
According to “Rethinking Politics,” in 1924 the U.S. Chamber of Commerce contended that production is not possible unless it produces:
A)consumers.
B)viable goods.
C)competition.
D)economic growth.
56
As explained in “Rethinking Politics,” the business and political leaders characterized as purchasing-power progressives redefined the term thrift to mean:
A)saving for retirement.
B)charity.
C)buying American.
D)wise spending.
57
As noted in “Rethinking Politics,” the boycott was seen by many business leaders as a demonstration of the importance of mass consumption
A)True
B)False
58
As defined in "A Promise Denied," the Bonus Marchers who traveled to Washington, D.C., in the summer of 1932 were:
A)members of the American Communist Party intending to incite riots against the federal government.
B)World War I veterans supporting a bill to supply bonus payments promised them in 1924 for wages lost during their military service.
C)workers from across America displaced from their jobs by the Great Depression.
D)troops led by Maj. Gen. Douglas MacArthur parading to show their support for unemployed World War I veterans.
59
As explained in "A Promise Denied," the bill proposed by Congressman Wright Patman to advance bonus payments to World War I veterans was passed by:
A)the House of Representatives but defeated in the Senate.
B)the Senate but defeated in the House of Representatives.
C)both houses of Congress but vetoed by President Herbert Hoover.
D)neither house of Congress.
60
Fortunately, as stated in "A Promise Denied," there were no civilian deaths incurred during the government's attack on the Bonus Marchers.
A)True
B)False
61
According to "A Monumental Man," President Franklin D. Roosevelt (FDR) was a master of:
A)deceit.
B)honesty.
C)misdirection.
D)the common people.
62
As reported in "A Monumental Man," President Franklin D. Roosevelt's (FDR) oratory style was:
A)aloof.
B)stilted and ill-at-ease.
C)directed to the ordinary person.
D)almost Victorian.
63
As explained in "A Monumental Man," FDR treated commoners like kings and kings like commoners.
A)True
B)False
64
As reported in “When America Sent Her Own Packing,” when repatriation began in 1931:
A)it was at the direction of the federal government.
B)only illegal aliens were involved.
C)the Mexican consul in Los Angeles condemned it.
D)a disproportionate number of deportees were Mexicans.
65
According to “When America Sent Her Own Packing,” when Emilia Castaneda left the United States in 1935:
A)she was returning to the country of her birth.
B)she was an American citizen.
C)she did not speak English.
D)only her mother accompanied her.
66
As noted in “When America Sent Her Own Packing,” the Wickersham Commission found nothing wrong with Labor Secretary Doak’s efforts to deport Mexicans.
A)True
B)False
67
As reported in “Wings Over America,” the winning pilot of the 1936 Bendix Race was:
A)Amelia Earheart.
B)Louise Thayden.
C)Jackie Cochran.
D)Benny Howard.
68
As noted in “Wings Over America,” in the 1936 Bendix Race, Benny Howard’s plane:
A)crashed with all hands lost.
B)got stuck in the mud in Wichita.
C)disappeared somewhere over the Alleghenies.
D)crashed on the Navaho reservation.
69
As stated in “Wings Over America,” the Staggerwing was forced to fly by dead reckoning because of static on the radio.
A)True
B)False
70
According to “Labor Strikes Back,” the central battlefield of the sit-down strikes was in:
A)retail establishments.
B)craft industries.
C)the automobile industry.
D)the service sector.
71
As reported in “Labor Strikes Back,” the catalyst that led to the sit-down strike at General Motors was management’s decision to:
A)tie wages to production speed.
B)eliminate certain benefits.
C)stall negotiations for a new contract.
D)relocate the dies to sites with less union penetration.
72
As noted in “Labor Strikes Back,” by the end of 1937, public opinion had turned against sit-down strikes.
A)True
B)False
73
According to “World War II: 1941 to 1945,” the novel that stands at the top among those written about World War II is:
A)From Here to Eternity by James Jones.
B)The Naked and the Dead by Norman Mailer.
C)The Best Years of Our Lives by Robert Sherwood.
D)The Winds of War by Herman Wouk.
74
As reported in “World War II: 1941 to 1945,” the book that best captures World War II’s totality was written by:
A)Richard Overy.
B)John W. Dower.
C)Ronald H. Specter.
D)Gerhard L. Weinberg.
75
As stated in “World War II: 1941 to 1945,” the Pacific campaign is better represented in historical writing than the campaign in Europe.
A)True
B)False
76
As described in "The Biggest Decision: Why We Had to Drop the Atomic Bomb," in the minds of American military leaders, the most important consideration in dropping the atomic bomb was to:
A)teach the Japanese a lesson.
B)send a message to the Soviet Union.
C)minimize American casualties.
D)force the Japanese to negotiate a peace.
77
According to "The Biggest Decision: Why We Had to Drop the Atomic Bomb," to President Harry Truman, the alternative to dropping the atomic bomb on Japan was:
A)losing the war in the Pacific.
B)never receiving a Japanese surrender.
C)never being able to teach the Japanese a lesson.
D)having to invade the Japanese islands, with many American casualties.
78
As described in "The Biggest Decision: Why We Had to Drop the Atomic Bomb," the "peace feelers" that the Japanese were sending to Washington were simply weapons of psychological warfare.
A)True
B)False
79
In discussing the provisions of the Marshall Plan, the author of “Dollar Diplomacy” notes that:
A)the aid could only be used for a specific list of purposes.
B)the plan made distinctions between former allies and former enemies.
C)it was up to the European governments whether to accept the aid or not.
D)Marshall listed specific nations that would not be eligible for aid.
80
Among the heroes of the Marshall Plan identified in “Dollar Diplomacy” were all of the following except:
A)William Clayton.
B)Arthur Vandenberg.
C)Ernest Bevin.
D)W. Averell Harriman.
81
As pointed out in “Dollar Diplomacy,” Senator Joseph McCarthy of Wisconsin denounced the Marshall Plan.
A)True
B)False
82
As pointed out in "From Rosie the Riveter to the Global Assembly Line: American Women on the World Stage," American women who had entered the work force during World War II were encouraged to:
A)continue utilizing their newly acquired skills and opportunities in the labor market.
B)also pursue leadership positions in government.
C)return to the domestic sphere of life.
D)enter colleges and universities to educate themselves further.
83
As noted in "From Rosie the Riveter to the Global Assembly Line: American Women on the World Stage," the term "feminization of poverty" refers to:
A)how issues such as discrimination and the wage gap disproportionately affect the economic welfare of women.
B)the fact that women are more likely to care about issues that affect the poor.
C)how childrearing responsibilities cause more women to experience poverty.
D)the fact that more women than men apply for welfare benefits.
84
As related in "From Rosie the Riveter to the Global Assembly Line: American Women on the World Stage," although the United States encouraged other countries to grant equal rights to women, the Equal Rights Amendment in America was virtually ignored by Congress.
A)True
B)False
85
As reported in “The Civil Rights Movement in World Perspective,” the Double V Campaign suggested that:
A)American hypocrisy reached new heights in liberating Europe but not the South.
B)the integration of the armed forces would guarantee military success in World War II.
C)victory at home against segregation was essential for victory against global fascism.
D)the Civil Rights Movement must insulate itself from global events.
86
As noted in “The Civil Rights Movement in World Perspective,” America’s Achilles heel in the competition with the Soviet Union for the allegiance of new nations having recently emerged from European colonial empires was:
A)the persistence of racism.
B)the persistence of poverty.
C)lack of harmony among socioeconomic groups.
D)involvement in Vietnam.
87
As stated in “The Civil Rights Movement in World Perspective,” before 1967, Martin Luther King was largely silent on U.S. foreign policy and involvement in Vietnam.
A)True
B)False
88
As depicted in "The Rise of Conservatism Since World War II," during the election of 1964 the conservative movement in America:
A)reached its apex with the resounding victory of Barry Goldwater.
B)was declared all but dead with the election of Lyndon Johnson and the increase in the Democratic majority in Congress.
C)achieved new heights with the election of Lyndon Johnson.
D)supported Lyndon Johnson for President of the United States.
89
As given in "The Rise of Conservatism Since World War II," social welfare programs enacted in the 1930s, such as the Social Security Act of 1935, were seen by conservatives as:
A)necessary evils that protected the less-privileged from destitution and stanched the growth of communism in the United States.
B)generally good ideas that were mismanaged by a bloated government bureaucracy.
C)obstacles to wealth-producing entrepreneurialism that encouraged idleness and dependence among its recipients.
D)a rational response to the unbridled greed that marked the 1920s.
90
As claimed in "The Rise of Conservatism Since World War II," the author Frederick Hayek argued in 1944 that controlling the economic freedom of the citizenry was necessary to thwart the rise of communism.
A)True
B)False
91
In assessing the 1960s in "The Spirit of '68," author John Judis concludes that the era was of:
A)almost no importance in the sweep of American history.
B)average importance in American history.
C)extreme importance in American history.
D)more importance to Europe than to the United States.
92
As maintained in "The Spirit of '68," reform in the 1960s was aided by an alliance of all of the following except:
A)religious fundamentalists.
B)popular movements.
C)elite organizations.
D)pragmatic business leaders.
93
As pointed out in "The Spirit of '68," in the 1960s Americans turned away from the sacrificing Protestant work ethic for an ethic of the good life, worrying about the quality of life.
A)True
B)False
94
As disclosed in "Soft Power: Reagan the Dove," Soviet documents have confirmed that President Reagan's SDI program was:
A)the catalyst in coercing the Soviet Union into surrendering in the Cold War.
B)considered to be the greatest threat to Soviet national security.
C)actually a copy of a similar anti-missile program developed by Soviet scientists in the late 1950s.
D)not considered a major threat to Soviet security and was not as significant in the downfall of the USSR as people think.
95
As noted in "Soft Power: Reagan the Dove," Soviet premier Mikhail Gorbachev desired to reform the Soviet Union and put an end to the Cold War but was frustrated by:
A)the hawkish stance toward Soviet interests that marked President Reagan's first term in office.
B)the threat of SDI.
C)his own country's cultural liberalization of the 1960s.
D)President Reagan's demands for unconditional surrender.
96
As stated in "Soft Power: Reagan the Dove," President Reagan was adamantly opposed to the abolition of nuclear armaments, preferring instead to maintain security by the insurance of mutually assured destruction.
A)True
B)False
97
As reported in “From Saigon to Desert Storm,” an advantage that the American military had over its Soviet counterparts in the Cold War was:
A)larger numbers of personnel.
B)computer technology.
C)continuation of the draft.
D)more tanks and artillery.
98
As noted in “From Saigon to Desert Storm,” the event that revived interest in precision-guided technology after World War II was the:
A)Korean War.
B)Cuban Missile Crisis.
C)Bay of Pigs.
D)war in Vietnam.
99
As stated in “From Saigon to Desert Storm,” conditions in the U.S military improved in 1973 after the abolition of the draft.
A)True
B)False
100
As discussed in "The Tragedy of Bill Clinton," there is an "everyman" quality to President Bill Clinton's autobiography since:
A)he writes about his youth in a desperately poor household very similar to others of his generation.
B)his family's socio-economic status was right in the middle; he was neither a child of poverty nor privilege.
C)he is a very talented writer with a gift for finding the common threads that bind us all.
D)his rural Arkansas upbringing gives lends him "regular guy" credibility.
101
While an undergraduate at Georgetown University, as noted in "The Tragedy of Bill Clinton," Bill Clinton was elected class president as a freshman and a sophomore, but did not run as a junior because:
A)he had become an intern for Sen. William Fulbright, gaining entree to the national political arena.
B)he predicted that his apparent opponent would beat him, so he ran for class secretary in order to avoid losing an election.
C)a scandal involving several young women at the Jesuit institution placed him on probation, so he was not allowed to run that year.
D)as a junior he spent his year abroad studying European political systems in England.
102
As claimed in "The Tragedy of Bill Clinton," Bill Clinton was able to avoid being drafted into service during the Vietnam war by having family contacts procure a position for him in the Arkansas Air National Guard.
A)True
B)False
103
As discussed in “The Rove Presidency,” Karl Rove’s political hero is:
A)Thomas Jefferson.
B)Franklin Roosevelt.
C)William McKinley.
D)Andrew Jackson.
104
As noted in “The Rove Presidency,” the element of Karl Rove’s realignment project that was successfully enacted was reform in:
A)Social Security.
B)education.
C)welfare.
D)immigration law.
105
As reported in “The Rove Presidency,” the reason for George Bush’s reelection was his ability to persuade just enough people that he was the better man to manage the war.
A)True
B)False
106
As reported in “Refusing to Lose,” at the heart of the congressional Republican rebellion on the issue of Iraq is:
A)declining poll numbers.
B)disgust with Nuri al-Maliki and the Iraqis.
C)disintegration of army combat readiness.
D)the perceived incompetence of David Petraeus.
107
As noted in “Refusing to Lose,” Senator Susan Collins’ proposal:
A)would give the U.S. Army until the end of 2008 to complete its present objectives.
B)requires all U.S. forces in Iraq to concentrate on combat operations.
C)will, she believes, result in a significant drawdown.
D)staunchly supports the Bush Administration.
108
As pointed out in “Refusing to Lose,” the U.S. Army is on the verge of breaking under the strain of the Iraq war.
A)True
B)False
109
As presented in "A Legend's Soul is Rested," Rosa Parks became a civil-rights icon by:
A)integrating lunch counters in Montgomery, Alabama.
B)marrying a white man.
C)becoming the first black student in a whites-only high school in Alabama.
D)refusing to give up her seat on a bus to a white man.
110
As mentioned in "Ending the Fool's Game: Saving Civilization," nuclear weapons are referred to as a "fool's game" because they:
A)are extremely expensive to maintain and will probably never be used.
B)do not offer security, so the only sensible solution is to dismantle them all.
C)are extremely easy to manufacture; one can download instructions for creating an atomic bomb from the Internet.
D)will contaminate the Earth for generations, thereby creating a permanent hazard from a momentary skirmish.
111
As detailed in "Ending the Fool's Game: Saving Civilization," since the end of the Cold War, nuclear weaponry in the United States and the former Soviet Union is:
A)still maintained at levels high enough to ensure destruction of both regions within hours.
B)largely obsolete.
C)a relic of the Cold War that is kept at minimum levels as a "just-in-case" measure for extraordinary circumstances.
D)in danger of being acquired by rogue states that would have no qualms about using them.
112
As claimed in "Ending the Fool's Game: Saving Civilization," President John F. Kennedy's secretary of defense credits only the unbending hard-line stance of his boss in avoiding nuclear war during the Cuban Missile Crisis.
A)True
B)False
113
As identified in "Pssst...Nobody Loves a Torturer," one of the main problems in the Abu Ghraib prison torture scandal was that:
A)soldiers were given strict instruction in torture techniques.
B)soldiers were given very little guidance from the top levels on what was and was not allowed.
C)some of the torturers were female and therefore sullied the reputation of American women around the world.
D)Iraqis and other people from that part of the world are not familiar with standard American operating procedures and mistook them for torture.
114
As set forth in "Pssst...Nobody Loves a Torturer," President Bush and Vice President Cheney responded to the anti-torture amendment proposed by John McCain by:
A)embracing it wholeheartedly.
B)attempting to have it killed in the Senate.
C)denying that such an amendment was necessary since they do not believe that they are engaging in torture.
D)Bush threatening to veto it and Cheney trying to fill it with loopholes.
115
As presented in "Pssst...Nobody Loves a Torturer," autopsies performed on 44 men who were held in Iraq and Afghanistan showed little or no evidence of torture.
A)True
B)False
116
In “Global Warming,” the author’s contentions about global climate change include that it:
A)can in no measure be controlled.
B)was caused by the market.
C)has no winners, only losers.
D)will have little to do with global distribution of power and money.
117
As suggested in “Global Warming,” what seems to be the perfect large firm of the future, from an investment standpoint, is:
A)Eli Lily.
B)Syngenta.
C)Monsanto.
D)General Electric.
118
As pointed out in “Global Warming,” progress on greenhouse-gas-reduction research would be faster if the government spent nothing on it.
A)True
B)False
119
As reported in “Boom Century,” most of the optimism of the baby boomers came from:
A)victory in World War II and Korea.
B)television and popular media.
C)the nation’s dynamic economy.
D)the Jeffersonian ideal of progress.
120
Regarding the attitudes of baby boomers, the author of “Boom Century” notes that they:
A)used their sense of privilege to work for the better good.
B)have an overall undeveloped sense of personal entitlement.
C)are less tolerant of loose personal mores than were their parents.
D)have political apathy as their calling card.
121
As stated in “Boom Century,” many of the ideas in Benjamin Spock’s child care books had been around for decades.
A)True
B)False
122
According to “Does Meritocracy Work?”, former Princeton president William Bowen found in his research that the group that does not enjoy an admissions advantage over otherwise identical applicants is:
A)poor people.
B)athletes.
C)underrepresented minorities.
D)legacy children.
123
As discussed in “Does Meritocracy Work?”, among the steps taken in the mid-twentieth century to overhaul college opportunity was:
A)requiring that admissions be need-blind.
B)ending standardized testing.
C)issuing universal government grants in the form of vouchers.
D)diversifying campuses through affirmative action.
124
As stated in “Does Meritocracy Work?”, former Princeton president William Bowen found in his research that elite universities are as much bastions of privilege as they are engines of opportunity.
A)True
B)False





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