HST 344
Exam 1 -- February 14 -- Dr. Heitmann Name_____________________________________________
I Objective
questions. Answer all 20 of the
following with the best answer possible. (40 pts.)
1. All of the following BUT ONE made important contributions
to the 19th century bicycle industry that served as a forerunner to the
automobile: a) Kirkpatrick Macmillan; b) James Starley; c) Nicholas Joseph
Cugnot; d) John Kemp Starley.
2. Of the following, what person has the best claim to the invention of the
automobile: a) Etienne Lenoir); b) John
Boyd Dunlop; c) Karl Benz; d) James Laux.
3. The county that was the leader in automobile production
during the pioneer era to 1908 was: a) Germany; b) France; c) Italy; d) Great
Britain.
4. All of the following but ONE was a disadvantage
associated with steam-powered cars: a) a relatively new technological system b)
slow start up time; c) high cost; d) need to replenish water.
5. Name the car made in Cleveland that Horatio Nelson
Jackson used on his historical transcontinental trip of 1903.
________________________
6. Due to the
encouragement he received while developing his Quadricycle, Henry Ford felt
indebted to this great inventor -- "the most useful American."
_____________________________
7. This man authored Principles of Scientific Management in
1911, consequently the basis of the field of industrial engineering. He
believed that work on the shop floor could be done "one best way."
_____________________________
8. In response to
worker turnover and criticisms concerning the "degradation of labor,"
in 1913 Henry Ford responded by paying his workers _____________dollars per
day.
9. This muckraking author wrote a story of one Ford Motor
Company family's vicissitudes through the years from 1908 to 1937, highlighting
the dark side of Henry Ford: a) Joseph Conrad; b) Booth Tarkington; c) Caroline
Merithew; d) Upton Sinclair.
10. The National Motor Vehicle Theft Act, passed by Congress
in 1919, was also known as the: a) Hoover Act; b) Dyer Act; c) Carter Act; d) Blues
Brothers Act.
11. This Flint speculator and businessman is normally given
credit for the founding General Motors. __________________________________
12. Inventor and
businessman, this Ohio State electrical engineering graduate developed the self
starter and integrated ignition system. __________________________________
13. He was the consummate organization man who was most
responsible for GM's organization plan of the early 1920s, for the
decentralized multi-divisional organizational structure, and consequently the
sustained profitability of the firm until his retirement in 1956.
_____________________________
14. This burley Californian and designer played a lead role
at GM between 1927 and 1958 in fostering the concept of "keeping the
customer dissatisfied." ______________________________
15. Walter Chrysler and the corporation named after him
acquired this auto manufacturer during the 1920s to add production capacity: a)
the Rickenbacker Motor Car Company; b) the Graham-Paige Motor Car Company ; c)
Dodge Brothers Corporation; d) The Jordan Motor Car Company.
16. All of the following groups but one proved to lobby for good roads at the end of the 19th
century: a) railroads; b) advocates for
rural free postal delivery; c) bicycle enthusiasts; d) farmers.
17. A group of
businessmen led by Carl Graham Fischer mounted a campaign beginning in 1913 to
develop a transcontinental highway link, now known as US 30, but then called
the ______________________ Highway.
18. Of all undivided
highways constructed during the Interwar Years, one in particular stands out as
the "Mother Road," in large part due to John Steinbeck's Grapes of Wrath. It is
_____________________.
19. What tax was the primary means by which the federal
government raised funds for highway construction after 1921?
____________________________
20. Built in Europe beginning in the 1920s, these divided
roads predated and severed as a model for Adolph Hitler's 1930s Autobahnen.
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HST 344 Exam 1 Essay
Question
Since the publication of On
the Road, a venerable mountain of critical literature has been generated
on the author’s intended themes. The most recent views that have been
discussed are those of John Leland, author of Why Kerouac Matters: The Lessons
of On the Road (they’re not what you think). Leland asks the reader to focus on Sal
Paradise (Kerouac’s character), rather than on Dean Moriarity (Neal Cassady). Leland argues that Sal provides the reader
with something they can use, like The Road Less Traveled or The Purpose Driven
Life. He goes on:
“Sal’s lessons divide among four overlapping fields, each
unsettled in the postwar boom. America had
emerged from the war with half the world’s wealth and nearly two thirds of its
machines, and with destructive capabilities unmatched in history. It was
creating suburbs, television, organization men, nuclear families, the car
culture, Brando, McCarthy, and Rock and Roll.
Amid this tumult, Sal navigates distinctive paths through the men’s
world of work, money and friendship; the domestic turf of love, sex and family;
the artist’s realm of storytelling, improvisation and rhythm; and the spiritual
world of revelation and redemption. His
lessons in all four areas remain relevant today – any reader picking up the
book for the first time can apply them to questions that are new to him or her
as they were to Sal.”
What lessons emerge after reading the book, and why are
they important to you?
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