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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 supported widely held assumptions about the sexual behavior of most Americans.
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 a sense of community.
B entertainment.
C help raising their children.
D a path to salvation.
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 desegregation of public spaces, whether schools or lunch counters, was the main goal.
D equitable distribution of economic resources was more important than integration.
Question #5
A black teachers were paid the same amount as their white counterparts.
B black students had access to the same educational resources as whites.
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 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 moral absolutes and happy endings.
C appealing primarily to children.
D fair depictions of African Americans.
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 electoral politics.
B violence and terror.
C Christian rhetoric.
D economic pressure.
Question #10
A record as a senator.
B physical attractiveness.
C support of Martin Luther King Jr.
D Roman Catholicism.
Question #11
A maintaining America’s image as a bastion of freedom and equality.
B keeping Henry Wallace from running against Truman in 1948.
C preventing black citizens from becoming Communists or sympathizers.
D alienating southern Democrats who were white supremacists.
Question #12
A tried to control defense spending.
B continued Truman’s containment policy.
C accepted and built upon the New Deal.
D paid attention to the Middle East.
Question #13
A welfare.
B integration.
C communism.
D taxation.
Question #14
A keep women from seeking paid labor.
B increase the market for private homes.
C forestall another economic depression.
D contain the spread of communism.
Question #15
A suburban growth.
B housing segregation.
C home ownership.
D long-term mortgages.
Question #16
A toughness and street smarts.
B the achievement of financial success.
C rebelliousness and nonconformity.
D the fulfillment of nuclear family life.
Question #17
A anti-union policies.
B anti-Communist fervor.
C aggressive foreign policy.
D opposition to civil rights.
Question #18
A women’s morals and sexuality.
B wealth and consumerism.
C hypocrisy and complacency.
D mental health institutions.
