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In The Affluent Society, John Kenneth Galbraith pointed out the:

persistence of poverty

After the war, Americans were most eager to:

purchase

The music Alan Freed labeled rock and roll was actually:

rhythm and blues

Between 1945 and 1960, home ownership:

significantly increased

The baby boom:

started in 1946

Elvis was especially controversial because of his:

suggestive gyrations on stage

One sign of the times came in 1954 when Congress added the words "under God" to:

the Pledge of Allegiance

One major reason for religion's growing appeal in the 1950s was:

the desire to combat godless communism

Between 1945 and 1960 in the United States:

the gross national product almost doubled

Most blacks who moved to Chicago were fleeing terrible poverty in:

the rural South

The postwar era witnessed its most dramatic population growth in:

the sunbelt

Willy Loman was:

the tragic lead character in Death of a Salesman

In The Lonely Crowd, David Riesman described the dominant corporate personality as one who:

tried to please people and gain the boss's favor

By the 1950s, suburban life was marked by an increasing:

uniformity

During the 1950s, the income gap between whites and blacks:

widened

By 1960, about 65 percent of Americans:

belonged to a church

In the postwar era, the trend in the corporate sector was toward:

bigness and concentration

While college enrollments soared in the postwar period:

black veterans encountered barriers to entrance

One of rock and roll's most important contributions was to:

bridge class and racial divisions

The postwar economic boom was fueled mainly by:

cold war-related military spending

In the 1950s, teenagers became especially important as:

consumers

In retrospect, the material successes of the 1950s:

created new problems that would be addressed in the 1960s

Alan Freed was a notable:

disc jockey

All of the following increased through the postwar years EXCEPT:

family savings

The youthful rebels known as the Beats:

favored road trips, Buddhism, and jazz

With the end of World War II, women workers were encouraged to:

give up their jobs to returning veterans

Ultimately, the Beats:

helped inspire the youth revolt of the 1960s

FBI director J. Edgar Hoover blamed rising rates of juvenile delinquency on:

lack of religious values

Suburban growth was spurred by all of the following EXCEPT:

new construction of mass public transportation

Blacks who moved to northern cities found:

new problems and forms of exploitation

Which of the following is NOT true of the GI Bill?

Its huge cost did not justify its benefits.

The location of William Levitt's first suburban development was:

Long Island

In The Crack in the Picture Window, John Keats described suburban life as:

"homogeneous, postwar Hell"

Houses in Levittown in the mid-1950s all sold for just under:

$8,000

The African American writer who explored the theme of social alienation in Invisible Man was:

Ralph Ellison

The Reverend Norman Vincent Peale emphasized:

a cheerful approach to life and religion

The theologian Reinhold Niebuhr emerged as:

a critic of social conformity and complacency

Life magazine's ideal woman of the mid-1950s was:

a white suburban housewife

Jackson Pollack pioneered the style of painting known as:

abstract expressionism

Howl was:

an explicit prose poem by Allen Ginsberg


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