McCarthyism and Women's Rights MC Questions

Who led a “witch hunt” for Communist spies in the United States government during the early 1950s?

• Supreme Court Justice Earl Warren

• President Dwight Eisenhower

• Senator Joseph McCarthy

• Secretary of State Dean Acheson

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The Red Scare and McCarthyism in the 1950s illustrate that

• fear of communism in the United States has led to violations of civil rights

• Nazi agents successfully penetrated the Federal Government

• freedom of expression is an unalienable and absolute right

• open immigration policies are encouraged in times of crisis

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The term “McCarthyism” has come to symbolize

• the protection of the constitutional rights of accused persons

• unfounded accusations of disloyalty and a climate of fear

• integration in public education

• attempts to encourage totalitarian dictatorships

What was a cause for the investigations of the House Un-American Activities Committee in the late 1940s and the investigations of a Senate committee headed by Joseph McCarthy in the early 1950s?

• the belief that there were Communist agents in the federal government

• excessive spending by the United States military

• the corruption and bribery of members of Congress

• actions of President Harry Truman that might have led to his impeachment

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In the post-World War II era, Senator Joseph McCarthy and the House Un-American Activities Committee attempted to

• develop an effective system for spying on other countries

• make Cold War programs a priority in United States foreign policy

• identify Communists in the government and elsewhere in American society

• establish a policy of detente with the Soviet Union

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The shift in point of view when Polly Baker moves from defending her personal character to criticizing lawmakers (paragraphs 2–3) has the effect of

• diminishing her credibility by sounding bitter

• broadening her argument from individual to societal concerns

• distracting the court from the original charges

• weakening her ethos by attacking authority figures

• appealing solely to the emotions of the audience

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The syntax of lines 50–58 (“Forgive me Gentlemen… expung’d for ever from your Books”) serves to

• create a tone of humility through short, simple clauses

• mimic the disjointed thinking of an uneducated speaker

• emphasize urgency through long, cumulative sentences

• diminish the seriousness of her claims through humor

• establish her detachment from the issue at hand

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The author’s allusion to “Nature’s God” (towards the end of speech) serves primarily to

• undermine religious doctrine by mocking it

• shift the argument from civil law to divine authority

• criticize the hypocrisy of the ministers

• suggest that natural law is unknowable

• diminish the seriousness of her earlier complaints

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The second sentence is unified by metaphorical references to

• labor and productivity

• warfare and destruction

• navigation and discovery

• religious ritual

• trade and commerce

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The antecedent for “them” in the sentence “Nature would have induc’d them to nurse it up with a Parent’s Fondness” is

• the lawmakers

• the children

• the women

• the hands

• the punishments

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