The Following Questions Refer to the Excerpt Below

question 5

Multiple Choice

The following questions refer to the excerpt below.
"A government job is a privilege,not a right. There is no reason why men who chum with Communists,who refuse to turn their backs upon traitors,and who are consistently found at the time and place where disaster strikes America and success comes to international Communism,should be given positions of power in government… I have not urged that those whom I have named be put in jail. Once they are exposed so the American people know what they are,they can do but little damage."
Senator Joseph McCarthy,The Fight For America,1952
-Though many Americans debated the merits of McCarthy's arguments in the passage above,most Americans supported

• A) American involvement in the Vietnam War.
• B) changes to loosen the nation's immigration policy.
• C) the build-up of the nation's nuclear arsenal.
• D) the nation's foreign policy strategy of containment.

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Definitions:

Ardipithecus

A genus of early hominids whose fossils provide insight into human evolution. It includes species such as Ardipithecus ramidus, which lived approximately 4.4 million years ago.

Human Family Tree

A diagrammatic representation showing the evolutionary relationships and lineage of human species from ancestral forms.

Neandertals

See Homo neanderthalensis.

Neander Valley

A valley in Germany where the first identified Neanderthal fossils were discovered, lending the name to the Neanderthal species.