- What was the public's reaction to the White House scandals of the late 1990s?
Your answer:
They placed most of the blame on the shoulders of Hillary Rodham Clinton.
They disapproved of Clinton’s lying and marital infidelity, but gave him high marks for job performance.
They demanded his impeachment.
They thought that there was nothing wrong with his marital infidelity and that he should have admitted it immediately.
They blamed Monica Lewinsky and Linda Tripp.
- What was Hillary Clinton referring to when she spoke of “a vast right-wing conspiracy”?
Your answer:
the opposition to her health care proposals
the forces behind the increasing terrorist activity
the faction in the Democratic party who opposed her husband’s second-term bid
the source of rumors about her husband’s sexual misdeeds in the White House
the leadership at Enron
- The Dayton Accords
Your answer:
established a framework for peace in the Arab-Israeli conflict.
imposed a cease-fire and created a framework for governing Bosnia.
created a timetable for the systematic reduction of strategic weapons.
settled the ongoing conflict between the United Auto Workers and General Motors.
created the underlying principle behind most of the corporate mergers of the late 1990s.
- The Group of Eight was
Your answer:
the nickname for the Supreme Court as it reviewed the contested 2000 presidential election.
a punk rock band that originated in Chechnya but became wildly popular in the United States.
the world’s leading industrial nations.
Hillary Clinton’s name for the anti-Clinton forces in the Senate.
the nickname that Monica Lewinsky gave to one of her weekly activities with President Clinton.
- The terms of the Oslo Accords included
Your answer:
creation of a Palestinian state.
return of most Israeli-held land in the West Bank and Gaza to the Palestinians.
further talks on the claims of Palestinian refugees.
further talks on the final status of Jerusalem.
all of these
- In the late 1990s, what did Pakistan, India, North Korea, Ukraine, Kazahkstan, and Belarus have in common?
Your answer:
They all were former republics of the Soviet Union that had recently become independent.
They were all small nations that the United States sent troops into between 1996 and 2000.
They all were known supporters of global terrorist activity.
They all were nations that had acquired nuclear weapons or had developed programs to develop them.
They were all declared part of the global “Axis of Evil” by President George W. Bush.
- By the second half of the 1990s, approximately what portion of American workers belonged to unions?
Your answer:
75%
3%
13.5%
95%
50%
- Which of the following is true of the 2000 presidential election?
Your answer:
the Democratic candidate won a narrow victory in the popular vote, but the Republican candidate became president because of the electoral vote.
George W. Bush made a strong appeal for the votes of liberal academics and professionals, union members, and African Americans.
Americans were favorably impressed by Al Gore’s mastery of the facts.
Bush was tainted by fund-raising scandals in the 1996 election campaign.
choices a and b
- Who is the highest-ranking African-American ever to serve in a presidential administration?
Your answer:
Jesse Jackson.
Colin Powell.
Martin Luther King.
Condoleeza Rice.
Warren Christopher.
- If you were in Washington today and heard someone talking about “soft money,” you would know that they are referring to
Your answer:
the latest performance of the stock market.
investments made in Enron or WorldCom.
inflation.
financial contributions made to political parties rather than to specific candidates.
the figures that the White House distributes regarding the current status of the federal budget.
- The initial approach to foreign policy taken by the George W. Bush administration was
Your answer:
coalition warfare.
go-it-alone.
shaped by the United Nations.
the work of Henry Kissinger.
all of these.
- In what sense was the attack on the World Trade Center unusual?
Your answer:
It was the first time that terrorists had struck in the United States.
It was the first time since the War of 1812 that a foreign enemy had attacked the American mainland.
The number killed in the attack was the highest single-day toll of dead in American history.
It was an attack carried out with the most sophisticated of 21st century weapons.
all of these.
- What was one of the noteworthy features of the campaign against Afghanistan late in 2001 and early 2002?
Your answer:
It proved much more difficult than anyone had expected.
Northern Alliance forces refused to cooperate.
The United States, in the end, had a relatively minor role.
It was the first time that NATO forces fought in defense of a member nation.
Iran joined forces with the United States for the first time since the overthrow of the Shah.
- What does the fate of Enron in 2001 highlight?
Your answer:
the difficulty of making a voting machine that will function in Florida humidity
the Pentagon’s wisdom in building a new high-tech military
the risk of obsession with soaring profits, fat bonuses, and ever-rising stock prices
the reasons why so many Americans are suspicious of health maintenance organizations
the mathematical model that won the 2001 Nobel prize for economics
- What achievement was compared to the mapping of the vast North American interior in the nineteenth century?
Your answer:
the construction of the World Trade Center in the early 1970s
the extraction of oil from Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in the 1990s
the diagramming of the lines of authority and interlocking investments of the Enron corporation in 2001
the “working draft” of the human genome that was announced in 2000
the birth of Dolly in 1997