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- 1. To a sociologist, the state of "alienation" refers to a:
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- (A) process of acculturation
- (B) process of assimilation
- (C) process of socialization
- (D) response to a pluralistic society
- (E) response to a technological society
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- (E) The sense of powerlessness and isolation that characterizes "alienation"
- is often invoked by the impersonality and complexity of technological society.
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- 2. When a corporation is granted a state charter, it becomes:
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- (A) state owned
- (B) a state bondholder
- (C) a legal cartel
- (D) a legal person
- (E) a legal trust
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- (D) When a corporation acquires a state charter, it becomes the equivalent of a
- legal person. It is then able to sue and be sued as if it were a person.
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- 3. The greatest federal deficits between 1900 and 1970 occurred during:
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- (A) periods of war
- (B) periods of prosperity
- (C) the Great Depression
- (D) the 1920s
- (E) periods of domestic political crisis
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- (A) The greatest federal deficits occurred during World War II and subsequent
- wars, when government expenditures increased.
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- 4. The policy of "Dollar Diplomacy" is associated with the administration of:
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- (A) William Howard Taft
- (B) Woodrow Wilson
- (C) Herbert Hoover
- (D) Dwight D. Eisenhower
- (E) Ronald Reagan
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- (A) "Dollar Diplomacy" refers to the United States policy of active
- intervention in Latin American affairs to promote and protect trade and
- investment. The policy began during the Taft administration.
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- 5. Emigration from America characterized which of the following?
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- I. the Revolutionary War
- II. the Civil War
- III. the Spanish-American War
- IV. World War I
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- (A) I and II
- (B) II and III
- (C) I
- (D) IV
- (E) III and IV
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- (C) Loyalists emigrated to Canada.
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- 6. The first woman to serve in the U. S. Congress was:
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- (A) Susan B. Anthony
- (B) Jeanette Rankin
- (C) Carrie Chapman Catt
- (D) Margaret Chase Smith
- (E) Frances Perkins
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- (B) Jeanette Rankin of Montana, the first woman to serve in Congress, was the
- only member of Congress who opposed the entry of the United States into World
- War I.
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- 7. According to the Constitution, the powers of the President include all of
- the following EXCEPT:
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- (A) serving as Commander-in-Chief
- (B) granting reprieves for federal crimes
- (C) making treaties with the advice and consent of the Senate
- (D) nominating ambassadors with the consent of the Senate
- (E) admitting new states to the Union
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- (E) According to Article IV, section 3, only Congress can admit new states
- to the Union.
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- 8. The first ten amendments to the Constitution insure all of the following
- rights EXCEPT:
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- (A) freedom from the quartering of troops
- (B) protection against unreasonable search and seizure
- (C) the right to bear arms
- (D) the right to vote
- (E) the right to a speedy and public trial
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- (D) Suffrage is not guaranteed by the Bill of Rights. The 14th and 15th
- Amendments guarantee suffrage.
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