Thanks to cheap public transportation in large cities, working people of the “good old days” were able to take a break from the humdrum and workaday at not quite respectable
a. amusement parks.
b. Chautauquas.
c. lyceums.
d. pool halls.
e. none of these choices.
ANS: A
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The Chumash
A) ?were a native group from California. B) ?were only a few hundred in number. C) ?had no gendered division of labor as both men and women hunted and gathered. D) ?were an inland people so they built no boats or canoes. E) ?All of these are correct.
The fundamental strategic decision of World War II made by President Roosevelt and the British at the very beginning of the war was to
a. plan for a second front in Western Europe as soon as possible. b. force Italy out of the war first by attacking the soft underbelly of Europe. c. arouse the American people to an idealistic crusade of the same sort that Woodrow Wilson had so effectively used in World War I. d. concentrate first on the war in Europe and to place the Pacific war against Japan on the back burner. e. fight an equally vigorous naval war against Japan and a land war against Germany and Italy.
Which of the following statements is not true?
A) The Great War eventually strained the whole fabric of life in Europe. B) The entry of the Ottoman Empire and the colonial empires of the belligerents helped to make the war into a world war. C) World War I made the world safe for democracy. D) The Great War undermined European hegemony in the world. E) Many thought a major war was impossible in rational and civilized Europe.