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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 11, Ambiguous Democracy.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Sellers say is the appropriate outlet for the sexual forces liberated in masturbation?
(a) The market.
(b) Politics.
(c) Productivity.
(d) Education.

2. What philosophy informs Sellers's chapter on the Second Great Awakening?
(a) Nietzsche an concept of morality as the product of class interest.
(b) Historical view of religion as an institution among institutions.
(c) Marxist concept of religion as a reaction to social trends.
(d) Philosophical view of religion as meaning-making.

3. Who felt threatened by the market revolution, according to Sellers?
(a) Investors.
(b) Commercial groups.
(c) Large landholders.
(d) Big merchants.

4. What happened to John Calhoun's political power when Andrew Jackson was elected?
(a) It was exposed.
(b) It waned.
(c) It increased.
(d) It went behind the scenes.

5. What does capitalism result in, according to Sellers?
(a) The celebration of sex.
(b) Repression of sex.
(c) The sterilization of sex.
(d) The mechanicalization of sex.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was making the problem of male sexual liberation more difficult, in Sellers's account?

2. Who pressed for the First Bank of the United States?

3. What did new politicians do to come into power?

4. What party's decay led to the formation of the Whigs?

5. What happened that workers began to unionize in the north?

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