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The chapter introduction tells the story of Sister Aimee and the imaginary Smiths to make the point that |
| | A) | Catholics, like other marginal groups, were becoming more culturally influential in the urbanized mass culture of the 1920s. |
| | B) | modern methods and values of the New Era mixed ambivalently with traditional beliefs and practices. |
| | C) | in the Jazz Age, truth was often stranger than fiction. |
| | D) | transformed ideas had taken over the minds of Americans by the 1920s. |
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What might be called a "second or post-Industrial Revolution," the "roaring economy" of the 1920s involved all EXCEPT |
| | A) | a productivity revolution based on technology. |
| | B) | a consumer-goods revolution that gave the U.S. the highest living standards on earth. |
| | C) | a revolution in thinking, in which advertising persuaded consumers to buy now rather than save. |
| | D) | a revolution in labor relations, marked by new growth in the size and influence of labor unions. |
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Henry Ford's great contribution to modern industrial culture was |
| | A) | the invention of the gasoline engine. |
| | B) | his sensitivity to the needs of the modern worker. |
| | C) | his commitment to standardization and assembly-line mass production. |
| | D) | his canny use of product diversification to appeal to a wide range of individual tastes. |
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The automobile became each of the following to American culture in the 1920s, EXCEPT |
| | A) | a means for the young to gain unprecedented freedom. |
| | B) | the symbol of social success. |
| | C) | an industry in which workers gained both new benefits and job satisfaction. |
| | D) | an instigator for a new roadside culture, and real estate booms in Florida and California. |
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For labor unions, the 1920s was a decade of |
| | A) | unprecedented membership growth. |
| | B) | holding on, retaining but not increasing membership or influence. |
| | C) | retooling to become eager partners with business in a cooperative welfare capitalism. |
| | D) | serious decline in membership. |
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Advertising |
| | A) | shifted during the 1920s from emphasizing products to stressing a consumer's desires. |
| | B) | had learned new techniques from the Committee on Public Information during World War I. |
| | C) | viewed the average American as having the "literate capacity of a 12- or 14-year-old." |
| | D) | All these answers are correct. |
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Changes in attitudes toward women |
| | A) | resulted primarily from changes caused by World War I. |
| | B) | did not include the cultural acceptance of the dissemination of birth control. |
| | C) | caused a significant increase in the number of women in the workforce during the 1920s. |
| | D) | opened the door to most of the professions for women. |
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Which of these media industries did NOT transform American culture during the 1920s? |
| | A) | movies |
| | B) | radio |
| | C) | television |
| | D) | print journalism |
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Each of the following was an activity through which Americans of the 1920s expressed their alienation from American culture, EXCEPT |
| | A) | expatriation to Europe. |
| | B) | joining the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA). |
| | C) | moving to California. |
| | D) | revolting against small-town life. |
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Which of the following groups generally supported the Prohibition movement? |
| | A) | labor leaders |
| | B) | Catholics |
| | C) | social scientists |
| | D) | All these answers are correct. |
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Conservative Protestants |
| | A) | objected to the belief that the Bible was a human interpretation of godly action. |
| | B) | fought to prevent evolution from being taught in schools. |
| | C) | feared the influences of modernism and of Jewish and Catholic immigrants. |
| | D) | All these answers are correct. |
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As secretary of commerce, Herbert Hoover practiced "associationalism." That is, he gave government encouragement and assistance to private business in all of the following ways EXCEPT |
| | A) | by encouraging the creation of trade associations. |
| | B) | by fighting for cooperation among businesses and between business and government. |
| | C) | by advocating laissez-faire policies to avoid government control. |
| | D) | by urging businesses to treat workers decently and fairly ("welfare capitalism"). |
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Which of the following was an element of U.S. economic diplomacy in the l920s? |
| | A) | reducing the tariff to allow other nations to sell their goods in the U.S. |
| | B) | reducing German reparations payments to the victorious Allies in return for helping stabilize the German economy |
| | C) | canceling World War I debts owed by European nations to the U.S. in order to make it feasible to reduce German reparations |
| | D) | promoting arms sales abroad to bankrupt rival powers |
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The beginnings of political realignment were already in evidence in the returns of the election of 1928, after which the Republicans |
| | A) | lost the southern vote. |
| | B) | lost power in the cities. |
| | C) | gained strength in the industrial northeast. |
| | D) | gained support among union members. |
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The Great Crash |
| | A) | was lessened by the raising of interest rates by the Federal Reserve in August 1929. |
| | B) | caused the Depression. |
| | C) | damaged the economy and broke the unbounded optimism of the New Era. |
| | D) | caused millions of Americans to lose the money they had invested in the stock market. |
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