Chapter 38 Reading Quiz
Section 1 – Matching: Match each description to the correct corresponding term.
1. Iraqi dictator defeated by the United States and its allies in the Persian Gulf War.
2. Political darling of Republican conservatives who won landslide election victories in 1980 and 1984
3. Long-time Republican political figure who defeated Dukakis for the presidency in 1988.
4. Successful commander of American forces in the First Persian Gulf War.
5. British Prime Minister of the 1980s whose support of free-market economics and tough anticommunism made her
Ronald Reagan’s closest partner.
a.
b.
c.
d.
e.
George H. W. Bush
Margaret Thatcher
Ronald Reagan
Norman Schwartzkopf
Saddam Hussein
Section 2 – Multiple Choice: Pick the best answer to each question.
6. The 1989 Supreme Court decision that upheld some state restrictions on a woman’s right to have an abortion was…
a. Roe v. Wade.
b. Webster v. Reproductive Health Services.
c. Brown v. Board of Education.
d. The Miranda decision.
e. Martin v. Wilks.
7. The great success achieved by American and Allied forces in the 1991 Persian Gulf War was the…
a. Overthrow of Saddam Hussein.
b. Liberation of Kuwait from Iraqi rule.
c. Freeing of the Kurds from Iraqi oppression.
d. Achievement of an enduring peace in the Middle East.
e. Formation of a strong American-Arab alliance against Islamic extremism.
8. In which of the following communist nations did mass protests, demanding liberty and democracy, in the years 1989–
1991 completely fail?
a. The Soviet Union
b. East Germany
c. China
d. Poland
e. Cuba
9. Reagan’s key agreements with Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev provided for…
a. The eventual end of communism inside the Soviet Union.
b. A major reduction in both Soviet and American nuclear weapons and intercontinental missiles.
c. The opening of Soviet markets to American businesses.
d. An end to Soviet and American sponsorship of governments and rebels in the Third World.
e. The banning of all intermediate-range nuclear missiles from Europe.
10. President Reagan formed a strong personal and political partnership with British Prime Minister Margaret
Thatcher based upon...
a. Reagan’s admiration and support for the idea of female leadership in high office.
b. Their belief in cultivating support for Western policies from Third World countries.
c. Their common devotion to protecting the social safety net for those left behind by technological change.
d. Their shared support for a stronger role for religion in public and political life.
e. Their mutual support for vigorous free-market economics and tough confrontation with the Soviet
Union.