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- 1. The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution of 1964 enabled President Johnson to:
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- (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:
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- (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
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- 3. "Vietnamization" of the war in Indochina during the Nixon administration
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- (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:
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- (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:
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- (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:
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- (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:
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- (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:
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- (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:
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- (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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