Question 1

The Beats took their name because of their pervasive sense that society had beaten them, or triumphed over their spirits.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 2

In regard to New Deal programs, Eisenhower:

Accepted Answer

A)  was intensely hostile 
B)  ended subsidies to agriculture 
C)  promised to outdo Roosevelt 
D)  retained most and even expanded some of them 
E)  wanted to privatize Social Security 
A)  was intensely hostile 
B)  ended subsidies to agriculture 
C)  promised to outdo Roosevelt 
D)  retained most and even expanded some of them 
E)  wanted to privatize Social Security

Question 3

Discuss the foreign policy philosophy of John Foster Dulles as he directed the Department of State under President Eisenhower.

Accepted Answer

John Foster Dulles, as the Secretary of

Question 4

Life magazine's ideal woman of the mid-1950s was:

Accepted Answer

A)  educated and single 
B)  career oriented 
C)  able to juggle home and career 
D)  an equal partner with her husband 
E)  a white suburban housewife 
A)  educated and single 
B)  career oriented 
C)  able to juggle home and career 
D)  an equal partner with her husband 
E)  a white suburban housewife

Question 5

Elvis Presley's first national smash hit was "Heartbreak Hotel."

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 6

Dulles's policy of "brinksmanship" involved:

Accepted Answer

A)  averting war through the threat of nuclear force 
B)  massing troops on the borders of Communist countries 
C)  constant provocations of the Soviets 
D)  regular flights over Soviet territory 
E)  the abandonment of the containment policy 
A)  averting war through the threat of nuclear force 
B)  massing troops on the borders of Communist countries 
C)  constant provocations of the Soviets 
D)  regular flights over Soviet territory 
E)  the abandonment of the containment policy

Question 7

Since the nineteenth century, Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia had been ruled by:

Accepted Answer

A)  China 
B)  Japan 
C)  France 
D)  Great Britain 
E)  themselves 
A)  China 
B)  Japan 
C)  France 
D)  Great Britain 
E)  themselves

Exam 30: The 1950s: Affluence and Anxiety in an Atomic Age

The Beats took their name because of their pervasive sense that society had beaten them, or triumphed over their spirits.

In regard to New Deal programs, Eisenhower:

Discuss the foreign policy philosophy of John Foster Dulles as he directed the Department of State under President Eisenhower.

Life magazine's ideal woman of the mid-1950s was:

Elvis Presley's first national smash hit was "Heartbreak Hotel."

Dulles's policy of "brinksmanship" involved:

Since the nineteenth century, Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia had been ruled by:

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