In 1913, it took thirteen hours to produce one automobile. By 1925, Henry Ford’s new plants were producing one car every __________. A) ten seconds B) hour C) ninety minutes D) two hours ANSWER Answer: A
Date: September 9th, 2020
Changes in 1920s morality probably reflected __________. A) government programs forbidding sex education B) a convergence in male and female sexual attitudes and habits C) widespread legalization of prostitution D) greater mainstream acceptance of homosexuality ANSWER Answer: B
Date: September 9th, 2020
Creator of George Babbitt of Zenith, this person became the first American author to win the Nobel Prize for literature. A) Sinclair Lewis B) Ernest Hemingway C) Eugene O’Neill D) Upton Sinclair ANSWER Answer: A
Date: September 9th, 2020
The most powerful sign of a deepening depression in the early 1930s was __________. A) rising unemployment B) inflation C) government welfare D) soup kitchens ANSWER Answer: A
Date: September 9th, 2020
Besides providing the cheapest electricity in the United States, the Grand Coulee Dam also __________. A) became a significant tourist attraction B) brought African American farmers to the region C) produced wealth for Mexican American workers D) brought new manufacturing to the region ANSWER Answer: D
Date: September 9th, 2020
John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath (1939), which was soon made into a film, sympathetically portrayed the plight of __________. A) Oklahoma Dust Bowl migrants B) unemployed Detroit factory workers C) new immigrants in New York City D) poor black farmers in Georgia ANSWER Answer: A
Date: September 9th, 2020
Briefly describe the Roosevelt coalition that emerged in the election of 1936. Why did each of these groups support FDR? What will be an ideal response? ANSWER Key Points: white Southern Democrats; ethnics who supported big-city political machines; unionized workers; African Americans
Date: September 9th, 2020
Navajos served in a unique capacity during the war as __________. A) radio code talkers B) spies behind German lines C) military chaplains D) medical corpsmen ANSWER Answer: A
Date: September 9th, 2020
At Stalingrad and Kursk in 1943, __________. A) the Allies broke the back of Russian resistance B) Germany suffered stunning and costly defeats C) strategic bombing reduced casualties and civilian damage D) American forces had to come to Stalin’s rescue ANSWER Answer: B
Date: September 9th, 2020
Which of these men would most likely have been chosen first by a draft board in 1942? A) an eighteen-year-old high school graduate B) a twenty-one-year-old college graduate C) a thirty-year-old married man D) a nineteen-year-old high school dropout ANSWER Answer: A
Date: September 9th, 2020
