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sdfghj · **on:** Sep 21, 2019

Question 1

Great Society reforms

A. improved the lives of whites far more than blacks.

B. made no dent in reducing hunger in America.

C. were generally proven to be cost-effective.

D. contributed to the greatest reduction in poverty in American history.

E. grew in popularity over the next decade and a half.

Question 2

President Lyndon Johnson's Medicare program

A. angered doctors by forcing them to lower their fees.

B. appealed mainly to poor and working-class Americans.

C. was broadly unpopular in the form in which it was enacted.

D. built on the success of his Medicaid program.

E. provided benefits to all seniors regardless of need.

Question 3

Only weeks after taking office, President Lyndon Johnson declared a war on

A. illiteracy.

B. poverty.

C. crime.

D. racism.

E. intolerance.

Question 4

The Johnson administration's Office of Economic Opportunity

A. was criticized for its absence of minority appointments.

B. spent less than 500 million in its first two years of existence.

C. called for the relocation of many of the nation's urban poor.

D. included a controversial community action program.

E. eliminated poverty in many regions of the nation.