MC Test Chapter 35

1. Influential critics of the 1950’s, such as David Riesman, were most concerned with which of the following aspects of the life in the United States following the Second World War? 

(A) Alienation and conformity in modern society 

(B) Schooling for the baby-boom generation 

(C) The economic responsibilities of being a world superpower 

(D) The threat to the nation form communist subversion 

(E) The spread of political corruption 

A

A significant demographic development in the two decades following the Second World War was a 

(A) decline in marriage and birth rates 

(B) rapid growth of suburbs 

(C) movement from urban to rural communities 

(D) great migration from the South and West to the Northeast 

(E) rapid increase in the average age of Americans 

B

Major domestic developments in the United States during President Eisenhower’s two terms included all of the following EXCEPT 

(A) a rise in the gross national product (GNP) 

(B) the dismantling of New Deal welfare programs 

(C) the peaking of the postwar baby boom 

(D) the exodus of Black families from the rural South 

(E) the beginning of construction of an interstate highway system

B

Which of the following is a correct statement about college-level education in the twentieth-century United States? 

(A) State universities increased scholarship aid during the Depression. 

(B) Private universities raised admission standards during the 1940’s. 

(C) The GI Bill financed the education of male students during the post-Second World War era. 

(D) The “baby boomers” finished college in large numbers in the 1950’s. 

(E) There was a sharp decline in college enrollment during the Vietnam War. 

C

The increased culture of consumerism during the 1950s was most similar to developments in which of the following earlier periods? 

(A) The 1840s 

(B) The 1860s 

(C) The 1910s 

(D) The 1920s

D

Which of the following examples best supports the Kerner Commission’s argument that two separate societies were emerging in the United States? 

(A) The movement of many families to the suburbs 

(B) The emergence of a youth culture 

(C) The arrival of new immigrants from around the world 

(D) The existence of racial segregation in the military 

A

The events that led to the Kerner Commission report most directly contributed to 

(A) the emergence of protests against the Vietnam War 

(B) women’s demands for equal rights 

(C) conservative calls for a new emphasis on law and order 

(D) the decline of union membership in manufacturing industries 

C

Whyte’s discussion about the “issue of individualism” best serves as evidence for the responses to which of

following situations in the 1950s?

(A) The protests of civil rights activists against segregation

(B) The rejection of mass culture by some artists and intellectuals

(C) The refusal of some military draftees to serve in the Vietnam War

(D) The opposition of a new conservative movement to postwar liberalism

D

Whyte’s concern in the excerpt for “the pressures of the group, the frustrations of individual creativity” best

provides evidence for which of the following developments in the 1950s?

(A) The emphasis on conformity in suburban communities

(B) The expansion of higher education opportunities for war veterans

(C) The creation of international alliances to oppose Soviet expansion

(D) The investigations of supposed communists in the federal government

A

Influential critics of the 1950’s, such as David Riesman, were most concerned with which of the following aspects

of the life in the United States following the Second World War?

(A) Alienation and conformity in modern society

(B) Schooling for the baby-boom generation

(C) The economic responsibilities of being a world superpower

(D) The threat to the nation form communist subversion

(E) The spread of political corruption

A

The rock ‘n’ roll of Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis, and the Rolling Stones derived primarily from

(A) European folk music

(B) nineteenth-century American ballads

(C) cowboy songs

(D) African American rhythm and blues

(E) Scotch-Irish ballads

D