Question 1
During the 1950s, a group of authors who promoted unconventional values in their writings were known as
A) litterateurs.
B) the Beat Generation.
C) conformists.
D) hippies.
Question 2
During the Eisenhower years of the 1950s, African American women
A) joined the women's movement.
B) were able to move into white-collar jobs.
C) did not succeed in increasing their income.
D) had to take domestic work to survive.
Question 3
In American society during the Truman and Eisenhower years,
A) sexuality was seldom discussed publicly.
B) white, well-educated women had little difficulty in reassuming their traditional roles.
C) the attitude toward women's roles drastically changed.
D) black women frequently lost the jobs they had held during the war.
Question 4
The conviction that a woman's main role was still homemaking was used to
A) keep married women out of the workplace altogether.
B) redefine some occupations as acceptable for women.
C) justify lower wages and denial of promotions.
D) limit job choices to domestic work or child care.
Question 5
Which one of the following was LEAST likely to reinforce the traditional image of women in the 1950s and 1960s?
A) Adlai Stevenson
B) Benjamin Spock
C) Betty Friedan
D) Doris Day
Question 6
An Esquire magazine article in 1954 asserted that
A) women deserved the advantages given to men.
B) working wives were a menace.
C) women should continue working in military plants.
D) lower-class women could attain middle-class affluence.