Question 1
What was the significance of Rachel Carson's book Silent Spring?
A) It led to the redevelopment of existing urban neighborhoods.
B) It described in graphic detail what pesticides were doing to birds and animals.
C) It launched the Kennedy-Johnson era War on Poverty.
D) It played a central role in the development of the new women's movement.
Question 2
Which book was largely responsible for calling attention to the problems of hidden urban and rural poverty in America?
A) The Omni Americans
B) How the Other Half Lives
C) The Other America
D) The Grapes of Wrath
Question 3
What was author Betty Friedan's book The Feminine Mystique credited for?
A) the development of women's liberation
B) the legalization of abortion
C) the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment
D) the development of alternative schools for girls
Question 4
The phrase the problem that has no name alludes to which of the following?
A) white female suburban isolation
B) infertility
C) marital infidelity
D) depression
Question 5
SNCC was an abbreviation for which group?
A) Students for National Coalition of Communists
B) Society for Nuclear Climate and Change
C) Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
D) Standards for Negotiating Consumer Complaints
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