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Problem 1: What accounts for Americans' public memory of the Kennedy years as a "Camelot"?

a.The administration's unfulfilled promises made Kennedy more mythical and less of a real politician.

b.Kennedy's heavy-handed style reminded Americans more of a monarchy than a democracy.

c.The strong bond between Kennedy and all his staff members and cabinet members made his administration look more like a team than that of his predecessors.

d.Kennedy's anglophile manners connected him with European high society more than with the nation's heartland.

Problem 2: President Harry S. Truman ordered the dropping of atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki

a.To avenge Pearl Harbor and the Bataan Death March.

b.To test how useful these new weapons would be in Europe.

c.As a first step in a plan to annihilate the Japanese people.

d.To force Japan to surrender.

Problem 3: All of the following were developments in the civil rights movement of the 1950s except

a.The "Southern Manifesto" that was issued in Congress.

b.Federal troops being sent to desegregated Central High School in Little Rock.

c.A year-long boycott in Montgomery, Alabama, that led to desegregation of the bus system.

d.The Supreme Court's overturning of Plessy v. Ferguson.