Chapter 25

Quiz for Chapter Twenty-Five Analyzing Voices: Coming of Age in the Postwar Years

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Question 1

The passage by Art Buchwald, “Studying on the GI Bill,” serves as evidence for which of the following post–World War II developments?A. The emergence of a youth culture
B. The new ethic of consumption
C. The growth of the military-industrial complex
D. The expansion of higher education

Question 2

Betty Friedan’s recollection of her experiences in the late 1940s provides examples to illustrate which of the following trends from that period?A. The baby boom
B. Resurgent domesticity
C. Suburbanization
D. The emergent sexual revolution

Question 3

The passage by Susan Allen Toth illustrates the dangers associated with which of the following types of conduct during the 1950s?A. Nonconformity
B. Deviation from conventional gender roles
C. Political activism
D. Thrift

Question 4

Melba Patillo Beals’s story about coming of age as an African American girl in the segregated South supports which of the following historical arguments?A. Post–World War II prosperity improved the economic status of many southern blacks, but Jim Crow continued to reinforce their inferior social status.
B. African Americans in the South, like southern whites, benefited from the economic boom of the post–World War II decades.
C. The baby boom created a generation of brave African American children who were determined, from a young age, to challenge Jim Crow.
D. World War II increased Americans’ awareness of the devastating implications of racism and made white southerners more hesitant to perpetuate it.

Question 5

The passage by David Beers compares his family’s experiences with shopping for a new house in suburbia in the early 1960s to which of the following American phenomena?A. Republicanism
B. Imperialism
C. Anticommunism
D. Immigration