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Chapter 25 Summative Quiz

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1. The growth of the middle class during the mid-twentieth century can be attributed to the increase in

union membership.

college attendance.

population.

consumerism.

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2. In the postwar period, the auto industry produced large, powerful cars

to accommodate growing families.

because gasoline was cheap and plentiful.

to reflect America’s superior status.

to use steel no longer needed for weaponry.

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3. Redlining and restrictive covenants were designed to enable

suburban growth.

housing segregation.

home ownership.

long-term mortgages.

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4. Teenagers played an important role in shaping the culture of the 1950s because they

had large sums of disposable income.

introduced new genres of music.

adopted new styles of dress.

grew up watching television.

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5. Elvis Presley was a transformative figure because he was

the first teen idol to appear on the Ed Sullivan Show.

a southern performer who achieved national popularity.

a white performer singing and dancing to “black” rhythms.

the first rock singer to sell more records than Frank Sinatra.

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6. For white fans of jazz and rock-and-roll, “blackness” represented

suffering and oppression.

authenticity and nonconformity.

popularity and acceptance.

morality and virtuousness.

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7. The intent of Brown v. Board of Education was to guarantee that

white and black students went to the same integrated schools.

black students had access to the same educational resources as whites.

black teachers were paid the same amount as their white counterparts.

funding for schools attended by only white students would decrease.

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8. The Little Rock Nine were known for

getting arrested at a lunch counter sit-in.

integrating a previously all-white school.

organizing a local bus boycott spinoff.

their role in founding the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee.

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9. One consequence of the murder of Emmett Till was

a decline in the number of African American visitors to the South from the North.

the participation of young African American adults in campaigns for racial justice.

a chilling effect on civil rights activity in Mississippi.

increased scrutiny of the activities of the Ku Klux Klan and White Citizens’ Council.

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10. Relations between the United States and Soviet Union improved when

the Soviets launched the Sputnik artificial satellite into space.

Hungarians rebelled against their Soviet-sponsored government.

Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev disassociated himself from the brutality of Stalin’s regime.

both nations began aboveground testing of nuclear weapons.

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11. A key factor leading to John F. Kennedy’s victory in the 1960 presidential election was his

support of Martin Luther King Jr.

Roman Catholicism.

physical attractiveness.

record as a senator.

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12. President Eisenhower’s policy in Vietnam was part of a broader commitment to

preventing the rise of Communist governments in newly independent nations.

supporting the establishment of autocratic regimes in Third World nations.

maintaining U.S. access to investments and markets in Southeast Asia.

helping NATO allies retain their colonial holdings in Asia, Africa, and the Middle East.