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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 white performer singing and dancing to “black” rhythms.
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 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 help raising their children.
B a path to salvation.
C entertainment.
D a sense of community.
Question #4
A racial integration was necessary to achieve true democracy in America.
B the movement for racial equality should be a movement of African Americans alone.
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 funding for schools attended by only white students would decrease.
B black teachers were paid the same amount as their white counterparts.
C white and black students went to the same integrated schools.
D black students had access to the same educational resources as whites.
Question #6
A the lengthy separations imposed by the war.
B economic uncertainty and food shortages.
C women working outside the home.
D the rise of juvenile delinquency.
Question #7
A fair depictions of African Americans.
B realistic depictions of family life.
C moral absolutes and happy endings.
D appealing primarily to children.
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 Christian rhetoric.
B violence and terror.
C economic pressure.
D electoral politics.
Question #10
A Roman Catholicism.
B record as a senator.
C support of Martin Luther King Jr.
D physical attractiveness.
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 continued Truman’s containment policy.
B tried to control defense spending.
C accepted and built upon the New Deal.
D paid attention to the Middle East.
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 contain the spread of communism.
D keep women from seeking paid labor.
Question #15
A home ownership.
B housing segregation.
C long-term mortgages.
D suburban growth.
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 opposition to civil rights.
B anti-Communist fervor.
C aggressive foreign policy.
D anti-union policies.
Question #18
A mental health institutions.
B wealth and consumerism.
C women’s morals and sexuality.
D hypocrisy and complacency.
