Question 1
Which of the following conclusions may be drawn from the facts surrounding the general railway strike of 1877?
a. If all else failed, the federal government could be counted on to put down labor unrest.
b. The success of a strike depended on the level of violence among the strikers.
c. Employers could cut working hours and lay off workers without fear of repercussions.
d. Laborers in one area had little sympathy for laborers in other areas.
Question 2
If one follows Thomas Mann's career, one may conclude that he
a. shed his conservatism and embraced liberalism when the consequences of conservative policies became clear in World War I.
b. never regretted his political conservatism when World War I began.
c. supported socialist totalitarianism.
d. saw Nazism as a reversion to the primitive and never abandoned his old-fashioned conservatism.
e. confirmed the observation that a young person who is not a socialist has no heart and an old person who is still a socialist has no brains.