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