Question 1
Which of the following is true of late-nineteenth-century Supreme Court decisions concerning the Interstate Commerce Commission?
a. The Court upheld the constitutionality of the ICC, and its decisions significantly increased the commission'spowers.
b. The Court upheld the constitutionality of the ICC, but its decisions weakened the commission's powers.
c. After chipping away at the powers of the ICC, the Court ultimately declared the commissionunconstit
utional.
d. After initially handing down decisions that increased the powers of the ICC, the Court completely reverseditself and declared the commission unconstitutional.
Question 2
The text attributes the catastrophic French defeat in 1940 to
a. poor French generalship and a loss of will.
b. French and British material inferiority.
c. the sudden surrender of the Belgians, which opened huge gaps in the French line.
d. the work of Fascist fifth-columnists inside France.
e. all-around German superiority in men and equipment.