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Below are the questions for the exam with the choices of answers:
Question #1
A the first rock singer to sell more records than Frank Sinatra.
B a white performer singing and dancing to “black” rhythms.
C the first teen idol to appear on the Ed Sullivan Show.
D a southern performer who achieved national popularity.
Question #2
A showed that women tended to be much less interested in sex than men were.
B found that the overwhelming majority of Americans waited till after marriage to have sex.
C supported widely held assumptions about the sexual behavior of most Americans.
D demonstrated that Americans’ sexual practices were more diverse than previously assumed.
Question #3
A a sense of community.
B help raising their children.
C a path to salvation.
D entertainment.
Question #4
A the movement for racial equality should be a movement of African Americans alone.
B racial integration was necessary to achieve true democracy in America.
C equitable distribution of economic resources was more important than integration.
D desegregation of public spaces, whether schools or lunch counters, was the main goal.
Question #5
A black students had access to the same educational resources as whites.
B black teachers were paid the same amount as their white counterparts.
C white and black students went to the same integrated schools.
D funding for schools attended by only white students would decrease.
Question #6
A the rise of juvenile delinquency.
B the lengthy separations imposed by the war.
C women working outside the home.
D economic uncertainty and food shortages.
Question #7
A appealing primarily to children.
B moral absolutes and happy endings.
C fair depictions of African Americans.
D realistic depictions of family life.
Question #8
A ability to connect religious practice to secular fulfillment.
B proposed solutions to the arms race with the Soviet Union.
C advocacy for adding “under God” to the pledge of allegiance.
D passionate anti-Soviet and anti-Communist viewpoints.
Question #9
A economic pressure.
B electoral politics.
C violence and terror.
D Christian rhetoric.
Question #10
A Roman Catholicism.
B physical attractiveness.
C record as a senator.
D support of Martin Luther King Jr.
Question #11
A alienating southern Democrats who were white supremacists.
B maintaining America’s image as a bastion of freedom and equality.
C preventing black citizens from becoming Communists or sympathizers.
D keeping Henry Wallace from running against Truman in 1948.
Question #12
A continued Truman’s containment policy.
B paid attention to the Middle East.
C accepted and built upon the New Deal.
D tried to control defense spending.
Question #13
A integration.
B welfare.
C communism.
D taxation.
Question #14
A forestall another economic depression.
B contain the spread of communism.
C increase the market for private homes.
D keep women from seeking paid labor.
Question #15
A home ownership.
B suburban growth.
C housing segregation.
D long-term mortgages.
Question #16
A the fulfillment of nuclear family life.
B the achievement of financial success.
C rebelliousness and nonconformity.
D toughness and street smarts.
Question #17
A anti-union policies.
B anti-Communist fervor.
C aggressive foreign policy.
D opposition to civil rights.
Question #18
A wealth and consumerism.
B hypocrisy and complacency.
C women’s morals and sexuality.
D mental health institutions.
