History 1378
Fall Semester 2014
Professor T. Tillery
The final examination will consist of two parts, multiple-choice and essay questions. There will be 65 multiple choice questions worth one point each. The essay section will require students to write on ONE of the following questions, there will be NO choice. The essay will be worth 35 points.
Essay questions for the Third Examination:
1. Discuss the history between America and Japan that led to the attack on Pearl Harbor in l941.
2. The Civil Rights Movement (l945-1965) included a legal attack “and” a grassroots attack on racism and segregation. Discuss why both approaches were needed and give example of both strategies.
3. Analyze the causes of the Great Depression and President Roosevelt’s efforts to solve it.
Multiple-Choice Questions:
*These are the questions we will use to make the final examination, however the order of selections within any question may change.
1. Which of the following statements about the hard times of the Great Depression is NOT true?
A. Marriages and births, symbols of faith in the future decreased.
B. Mothers who stayed home found their traditional roles more disrupted than their husbands’.
C. For the first time emigration out of the United States exceeded immigration into it.
D. Over half the female labor force continued to work in domestic service or in the garment trades.
2. Most Depression movies, like much of popular culture, tended to
A. Critique the status quo.
B. Provide dark images of horror or tragedy that played to the emotional despair of a suffering nation.
C. Uphold the basic social and economic values of America.
D. Push the limits of sex and violence in a time of social upheaval and discontent.
3. The dust storms that devastated the plains resulted from all the following EXCEPT
A. Logging of the region’s trees.
B. Intensive agriculture.
C. Overgrazing.
D. Drought.
4. During the