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Quiz 3 Question 1 1 pts Which of the following additions to the Republican platform reflected the influence of the Religious Right in 1980? Group of answer choices A mandatory death penalty for certain crimes Making assault weapons more difficult to obtain Support for the Equal Rights Amendment Protection for the rights of all religions in public schools Flag question: Question 2 Question 2 1 pts Reaganomics increased the share of wealth held by Group of answer choices corporations and wealthy Americans. the working poor and welfare recipients. the Religious Right and the working poor. the Religious Right and other religious groups. Flag question: Question 3 Question 3 1 pts The profits from the secret sale of arms to Iran in the 1980s were used to Group of answer choices finance President Reagan’s reelection campaign. aid the Contras, an opposition group in Nicaragua.

free all hostages held by pro-Iranian forces in Lebanon. bolster Kuwait’s defenses against Iraq. Flag question: Question 4 Question 4 1 pts For this question, refer to the following excerpts, the first from a book for school children about the future and the second from a screenplay for a popular science fiction movie. Imagine you are living in the future, and are doing a project on Halley’s comet. It’s quite some time since it last appeared in 1986, and you want to find out when it will again be seen from Earth. You also want to know the results of a space mission to the comet, and find out what the comet is made of. In the days when the las t comet appeared, you would have had to look up Halley’s comet in an encyclopedia or a book on astronomy. If you didn’t possess these books, you would have gone to the library to get the information. . . . People still collect books as valuable antiques or for a hobby, but you get virtually all the information you need from the viewscreen of your home computer. The computer is linked to a library — not a library of books but an electronic library where information on every subject is stored in computer memory banks. . . . Computers will make the world of tomorrow a much safer place. They will do away with cash, so that you need no longer fear being attacked for your money. In addition, you need not worry that your home will be burgled or your car stolen. The computers in your home and car will guard them, allowing only yourself to enter or someone with your permission. Neil Ardley, World of Tomorrow: School, Work, and Play , 1981 Reese: There was a war. A few years from now. Nuclear war. The whole thing. All this — [His gesture includes the car, the city, the world.] — everything is gone. Just gone. There were survivors. Here. There. Nobody knew who started it. (pause) It was the machines. Sarah: I don’t understand . . . Reese: Defense network computer. New. Powerful. Hooked into everything. Trusted to run it all. They say it got smart . . . a new order of intelligence. Then it saw all people as a threat, not just the ones on the other side. Decided our fate in a microsecond . . . extermination.

Scene from screenplay by James Cameron and Gale Anne Hurd, Terminator , 1984 The differences between the two excerpts can best be explained by Group of answer choices the challenges presented by twenty-first-century social and economic changes. technology increasing access to information. questions that were raised about the protections of civil liberties and human rights. intensified debates during the period about national identity and behaviors. Flag question: Question 5 Question 5 1 pts Which of the following precipitated a crisis in American-Iranian relations in 1979? Group of answer choices A communist revolution in Iran President Carter’s criticism of the Iranian secret police American support for the deposed shah of Iran Iranian terrorist activity in the United States Flag question: Question 6 Question 6 1 pts Which of the following was one of the factors leading to Ronald Reagan’s Republican victory in 1980? Group of answer choices His positive attitude and decisive demeanor His ability to appeal to liberal Democrats

Reagan’s commitment to transparent government Regan’s promise to increase spending on social welfare programs Flag question: Question 7 Question 7 1 pts Which of the following is true regarding the 1991 Persian Gulf War? Group of answer choices Women comprised about 10 percent of American troops but were not sent to combat zones. It was hindered by the continuing influence of the Vietnam syndrome. The United States acted with the approval of the UN Security Council. President Bush’s popularity plummeted as a result of the war. Flag question: Question 8 Question 8 1 pts Which is true of the AIDS crisis of the 1980s and 1990s? Group of answer choices The federal government responded immediately to the AIDS crisis. The disease affected only gay men and women. More Americans died of AIDS than were killed in the Korean and Vietnam Wars combined. Approximately 95 percent of people infected with HIV live in the Western Hemisphere. Flag question: Question 9 Question 9 1 pts In 1985, more than two hundred American marines were killed in an explosion in Group of answer choices Jordan.

Israel. Pakistan. Lebanon. Flag question: Question 10 Question 10 1 pts Which of the following was true of the United States in the mid-1980s? Group of answer choices The majority of college students were enlightened social activists. The United States was the world’s leading exporter of agricultural goods. American manufacturing sales abroad were unsurpassed. The United States registered a negative balance of international payments. Flag question: Question 11 Question 11 1 pts Iran released the American hostages and ended the long hostage crisis Group of answer choices when President Carter agreed to lift economic sanctions against Iran. on the day Carter left office after the 1980 presidential election. when President Carter threatened to send commandos to rescue the hostages. when President-Elect Reagan publicly threatened military action against the Iranian regime. Flag question: Question 12 Question 12 1 pts Supply-side economics, as practiced by the Reagan administration, rested on Group of answer choices balancing the federal budget as the highest priority.

using tax cuts to stimulate investment, which would eventually result in higher tax revenues. stimulating the national economy by increasing federal spending. increasing the money supply with lower interest rates, which would improve the economy. Flag question: Question 13 Question 13 1 pts Which of the following was true of Republicans in the 1980s? Group of answer choices They supported quotas to ensure equal employment opportunities. They opposed government inaction in social welfare issues. Their core was upper-middle-class white Protestants. To save money, they wanted to cut defense spending. Flag question: Question 14 Question 14 1 pts In 1975, Bill Gates and Paul Allen founded Group of answer choices Apple Corporation. IBM. Microsoft. Hewlett-Packard. Flag question: Question 15 Question 15 1 pts After the 1980 election, which of the following parties gained control of the U.S. Senate for the first time since 1954? Group of answer choices

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