Chapter.16 Test Bank Docx - The Reagan Years

Chapter 16 - The Reagan Years

Test Bank

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 16 Question 1

1) Regan’s advocacy of his beliefs was powerful and persuasive because his ideas

a. Were thoroughly researched and backed with evidence

b. Were simple enough to be treated like items of faith

c. Took into account the changes of the 1960s and 70s

d. Were progressive and forward-thinking

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 16 Question 2

2) The Reagan White House

a. Was run entirely by the president, who kept a close eye on details

b. Was managed by Reagan’s advisors, who were carefully chosen by him

c. Was dependent on the few aides who had the ear of the resident, as he was largely hands-off

d. Had a reputation for being hard-working and tough

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 16 Question 3

3) Reagan combatted the programs of the Great Society by

a. Slashing funding to social welfare programs

b. Using the Justice Department to fight them in court

c. Ordering heads of government agencies to not enforce regulations

d. All of the above

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 16 Question 4

4) Reagan’s economic plans, dubbed supply-side economics, were based on the belief that

a. An unfettered economy would produce a balanced budget based on sustained growth

b. Reducing foreign aid commitments was key to balancing the budget

c. Taxes needed to be increased to increase military funding

d. A closed economy that could be fully controlled by the federal government was key to lower taxes

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 16 Question 5

5) The practical problem with implementing Stockman’s supply-side economics was that

a. Reagan refused to boost military spending

b. The Federal Reserve refused to tighten interest rates to reduce inflation

c. The American people didn’t favor lower taxes

d. Congress refused to slash Social Security and Medicare

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 16 Question 6

6) The only exception to the economic strength of the mid-1980s was

a. The weak housing market

b. Low consumer spending

c. Still-high inflation

d. High deficit spending

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 16 Question 7

7) The Reagan Doctrine focused on

a. Detente with communism

b. Rolling back America’s foreign policy commitments

c. America’s right to intervene anywhere in the world to combat communist insurgency

d. Focusing American foreign policy on the Western Hemisphere

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 16 Question 8

8) This map shows

a. How intensively Reagan adopted an interventionist foreign policy

b. That the majority of interventions under Reagan happened in the Caribbean

c. That Reagan was limiting American foreign policy commitments

d. That Americans were less and less concerned with the threat of communism

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 16 Question 9

9) In 1984, Walter Mondale hoped to challenge Reagan on

a. Foreign policy

b. The economy

c. Policies on race

d. All of the above

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 16 Question 10

10) One member of Congress nicknamed Reagan “the Teflon president,” meaning that

a. He was slippery and tricky

b. He was rough and unlikable

c. Nothing, even his mistakes, stuck to him

d. He was bad for the environment

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 16 Question 11

11) The Iran part of the Iran-Contra scandal was an attempt to

a. Supply Israel with arms to defend itself against Iran

b. Convince Iran to release its American hostages

c. Get Iran to intervene in favor of the release of American hostages in Lebanon

d. Support a coup against the Khomeini government in Iran

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 16 Question 12

12) The National Security Council was attempting to get third-country funding for the Nicaraguan Contras because

a. The Boland Amendment forbade the US from funding them directly

b. Reagan was against funding the Contras

c. The Contras were communist sympathizers, and therefore could not be funded publicly by the US

d. The Contras were misusing the money they were given

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 16 Question 13

13) The Iran-Contra affair revealed that

a. Reagan was not in control of the actions of members of his administration

b. Congress was out to get the President

c. Reagan was totally willing to break the law

d. Limited budgets had forced Reagan officials to get creative with funding

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 16 Question 14

14) The AIDS epidemic initially struck _______ the hardest

a. Poor people

b. Black people

c. White men

d. Gay men

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 16 Question 15

15) The long-term consequences of Reagan’s tax policies included

a. Massive increases in federal deficit spending

b. Cheaper imports which hurt American businesses

c. Higher interest rates to enable the government to borrow money

d. All of the above

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 16 Question 16

16) The trend toward a two-tiered society was accelerated by

a. The loss of high-wage jobs that disappeared or moved overseas

b. The growth in low-wage jobs that paid below the poverty level

c. The movement of jobs out of cities to suburbs

d. All of the above

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 16 Question 17

17) The weaknesses in the American economy were revealed to the American people by

a. The Iran-Contra scandal

b. The rapidly increasing national debt

c. The stock market crash of 1987

d. Reagan’s increasingly obvious incapacitation

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 16 Question 18

18) Mikhail Gorbachev took over the Soviet Union in 1985, determined to

a. Reduce the Soviet military budget in order to revitalize the Soviet economy

b. Double down on the Cold War

c. Begin working to spread Communism around the world again

d. Return to earlier policies of Communism in one country

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 16 Question 19

19) This image shows Reagan with _______, the relationship that rescued his presidency.

a. Mikhail Gorbachev

b. Leonid Brezhnev

c. Margaret Thatcher

d. Oliver North

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 16 Question 20

20) The negative consequence of Reagan’s approach to the presidency as an acting role was that

a. It was not believable

b. It detached him from the reality of governance

c. It allowed him more freedom to work behind the scenes

d. It forced him to choose skilled, capable advisors