Author Question: During the 1950s in the United States, married women who worked outside the home A. increased in ... (Read 44 times)

Lobcity · **on:** Sep 21, 2019

Question 1

The popular beat novel On the Road (1957) was written by

A. William Burroughs.

B. Allen Ginsberg.

C. J. D. Salinger.

D. Jack Kerouac.

E. Saul Bellow.

Question 2

During the 1950s, television networks

A. refused to show how the lower classes lived in America.

B. both refused to show how the lower classes lived in America and generally conveyed an idealized image of America.

C. created conditions that helped to ameliorate social conflict.

D. None of these answers is correct.

E. generally sought to convey an idealized image of a homogeneous America.

Question 3

In 1946, Dr. Benjamin Spock's best-selling Baby and Child Care contended that

A. children should not be breast-fed or allowed to sleep with their parents.

B. fathers needed to spend as much time as mothers in the care and raising of their children.

C. families should not have more than three children.

D. mothers should stay at home with their children.

E. the ages of children in a family should not be spaced out over more than five years.

Question 4

All of the following statements regarding early television are true EXCEPT that

A. all three major television networks had started as radio companies.

B. television quickly became the most powerful medium of mass communication in history.

C. in the 1920s there were experiments in broadcasting pictures and sound.

D. the federal government largely kept big business sponsorship out of television advertising.

E. in 1946 there were 17,000 television sets in the United States.

Question 5

During the 1950s in the United States, married women who worked outside the home

A. increased in number throughout the decade.

B. All these answers are correct.

C. accounted for nearly one-third of all married women.

D. both increased in number throughout the decade, and accounted for nearly one-third of all married women.

E. faced social pressures to stay at home with their children.