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