Multiple choice

1. Studies indicate that most unemployed American workers lost or left their jobs because

they are lazy.

of economic slowdowns and corporate restructuring.

they are undereducated for the work they are doing.

they wanted to be out of work in order to collect unemployment benefits.

they were not getting paid enough to cover their job-related expenses.

2. ________ was called the great leveler when it began in the early nineteenth century.

Social welfare

Public education

The federal government

The Internal Revenue Service

Social Security

3. The basis for containment policy was the assumption that

the territorial and ideological ambitions of an aggressor nation can only be blocked by determined opposition.

the spread of nuclear weapons is a danger to the world and must be stopped.

economic trade should be tailored to benefit the full industrialized nations through the formation of economic communities.

an arms race will inevitably escalate and therefore must be stopped through negotiations at an early stage.

terrorism can be contained within a few countries.

4. ________ led the communist takeover of China in 1949.

Mikhail Gorbachev

Jiang Zemin

Chiang Kai-Shek

Mao Zedong

Kim Jong Il