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1. The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution of 1964 enabled President Johnson to:
(A) decrease American forces in Vietnam
(B) turn most of the leadership of the Vietnam War over to South
Vietnamese generals
(C) escalate the war in Vietnam
(D) sever diplomatic relations with South Vietnam
(E) ask European allies to aid the United States in Vietnam
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(C) This resolution enabled President Johnson to escalate American commitment
to the Vietnam War.
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2. During the election of 1968, a significant third party candidate was:
(A) George C. Wallace
(B) Henry A. Wallace
(C) Hubert H. Humphrey
(D) George McGovern
(E) Robert F. Kennedy
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(A) George Wallace, the major third party candidate in the 1968 election,
received 46 electoral votes from five states and over 13 percent of the popular
vote.
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3. "Vietnamization" of the war in Indochina during the Nixon administration
meant:
(A) increasing the number of American combat troops sent to Vietnam
(B) bargaining with the North Vietnamese at the Paris Peace Talks
(C) bombing strategic targets in North Vietnam
(D) training U. S. military personnel in Vietnamese culture and history
(E) shifting the fighting from American troops to South Vietnamese troops
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(E) Vietnam's Army was to enter combat.
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4. During the Paris Peace Talks that began in 1968, the North Vietnamese:
(A) insisted on unification of Vietnam
(B) provided support for the Thieu regime
(C) demanded that all American troops leave North Vietnam
(D) claimed that Cambodia was part of Vietnam
(E) agreed to a plan of peaceful withdrawal from South Vietnam
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(A) North Vietnam unsuccessfully insisted on the unification of Vietnam.
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5. A recession may be best described as:
(A) the extended aftermath of a long depression
(B) a limited period of rising prices and falling wages
(C) a limited period when unemployment rises and business activity slows
(D) a sudden rise in unemployment and industrial output
(E) a period of wildly fluctuating wages and prices
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(C) Unemployment rises and business activity slows down in a recession.
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6. "Their system of government would be much better if it were more like
ours," commented an American diplomat in an Asian nation. This statement
could be most accurately described as:
(A) comparative
(B) ethnological
(C) enthnocentric
(D) competitive
(E) instinctive
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(C) Ethnocentricity is the attitude that one's culture and attitude are
superior to those of others.
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7. A random sample is one in which:
(A) those included in the sample represent the population at large
(B) every member of the population has an equal chance of being included in
the survey
(C) everyone in the survey is given the same questionnaire
(D) researchers do not interfere with the subjects' responses
(E) the same group of people is studied at intervals over period of years
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(B) Everyone has the same chance.
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8. The study of semantics would be of most importance to:
(A) an archeologist
(B) a linguist
(C) a geographer
(D) a demographer
(E) an economist
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(B) Semantics is the study of the meaning of words and linguistic development.
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9. Underdeveloped countries are typically characterized by all of the
following EXCEPT:
(A) low income
(B) low literacy rates
(C) overpopulation
(D) low infant mortality rates
(E) high proportion of the population employed in agriculture
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(D) Underdeveloped countries are typically characterized by high infant
mortality rates.
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