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