MCQ Questions
Q.1.
One of the benefits of the new suburban lifestyle of the 1950s was that
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    suburban homes had yards and crime was low.
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    a pent-up demand for consumer goods
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    the advertising industry.
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    the mass production of televisions
Q.2.
How did "car culture" in the United States affect the new migration of the 1950s?
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    The new highway system, which resulted from the car culture, made it easier for people to migrate from the North and East to the South and West.
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    Only wealthy people could afford cars, so the people involved in the new migration tended to be wealthy with a lot of disposable income.
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    As car ownership increased, more people stayed put and only traveled to distant places during vacations, which brought the new migration to an end.
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    Cars helped urban centers and their downtown areas prosper, which made people want to migrate to Eastern cities during the 1950s.
Q.3.
Owning a car during the 1950s in the United States was mostly
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    a pent-up demand for consumer goods
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    the advertising industry.
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    suburban homes had yards and crime was low.
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    a sign of status and success.
Q.4.
Conformity and the consumer culture of the 1950s were both supported by
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    the advertising industry.
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    a sign of status and success.
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    suburban homes had yards and crime was low.
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    the mass production of televisions
Q.5.
Which of the following gave the American economy a major boost in the years after World War II?
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    suburban homes had yards and crime was low.
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    the mass production of televisions
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    a sign of status and success.
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    a pent-up demand for consumer goods
Q.6.
Who applied assembly-line techniques to home construction in the 1950s?
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    family road vacations.
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    William Levitt
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    the GI Bill
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    The new highway system, which resulted from the car culture, made it easier for people to migrate from the North and East to the South and West.