HBSE TEST II UPDATED QUESTIONS AND VERIFIED
ANSWERS
The word puberty is derived from a Latin word meaning to:
A. Develop sex muscles
B. Grow hairy
C. Shed baby fat
D. Begin adulthood - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅B. Grow hairy
The following is true about the timing of puberty in girls:
A. Girls begin puberty between ages 9 and 12
B. Girls reach their full height by about age 21
C. Boys begin puberty about two years earlier than do girls
D. Boys tend to become interested in girls before girls begin noticing boys - CORRECT
ANSWER✅✅✅A. Girls begin puberty between ages 9 and 12
The tendency for people to generally grow taller and bigger than they did a century ago is called the:
A. Secondary sex characteristics anomaly
B. Secular trend
C. Adrenal custom
D. Musculature precedence - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅B. Secular trend
All of the following are true about nocturnal emissions in boys except:
A. They most commonly occur approximately once a month during the late teens
B. They continue up to the age of 40
C. They provide a natural means of relieving sexual tension
D. They are not always accompanied by sexual dreams - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅B. They continue
up to the age of 40
,All of the following are true about early maturing boys as opposed to late maturing boys except:
A. They tend to feel inferior
B. They tend to have better self-concepts
C. They are more likely to get in to trouble with drugs and alcohol
D. They tend to be more popular - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅A. They tend to feel inferior
Early-maturing girls:
A. Tend to get into less trouble than late-maturing girls
B. Outperform other students on school achievement tests
C. Tend to experience more problems in school
D. Achieve more in their work careers during adulthood - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅C. Tend to
experience more problems in school
Compared to the United States, adolescent behavior in Canada concerning alcohol and other drug use is:
A. Less extensive
B. Comparable
C. More extensive - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅B. Comparable
Variables putting adolescents at risk for alcohol and other substance abuse are clustered into all of the
following categories except:
A. Peer influences
B. Environmental factors
C. Parental factors
D. Biological adjuncts - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅D. Biological adjuncts
Of all adolescent pregnancies that occur each year, ______ percent are aborted.
A. 12
B. 32
C. 52
,D. 72 - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅B. 32
Which of the following is true:
A. Differences in patterns of sexual activity may relate more to poverty than to race or ethnicity
B. White and Hispanic teenagers are more likely to have sexual intercourse than their African American
counterparts
C. One half of Hispanic females have sexual intercourse by age 13
D. Research has found that parental supervision and involvement has no influence on the timing of the
first sexual intercourse for adolescents - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅A. Differences in patterns of sexual
activity may relate more to poverty than to race or ethnicity
Approximately _____ percent of teen mothers in the United States are single.
A. 60
B. 70
C. 80
D. 90 - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅C. 80
The following is true of children born to adolescent mothers compared to those born to adult mothers:
A. They tend to have more emotional, intellectual, and physical problems than their counterparts born
to adult mothers
B. They tend to have higher IQs than their counterparts born to adult mothers
C. They tend to be higher achievers as they grow than their counterparts born to adult mothers
D. They have a lower mortality rate than babies born to adult mothers - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅A.
They tend to have more emotional, intellectual, and physical problems than their counterparts born to
adult mothers
_____ percent of female adolescents use no contraception during sexual intercourse.
A. 9
B. 19
C. 29
D. 39 - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅B. 19
, According to public opinion polls in the United States and Canada, ____ percent of parents of junior
high-age students indicate that it is very or somewhat important to have sexuality education as part of
the school curriculum.
A. 33
B. 53
C. 73
D. 93 - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅D. 93
SIECUS recommends that a comprehensive sex education program should have all of the following goals
except:
A. Attitudes, values, and insights
B. Information
C. Responsibility
D. Abstinence - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅D. Abstinence
The structure along the back of each testis in which sperm maturation occurs is called the:
A. Cowper's glands
B. Vas deferens
C. Epididymis
D. Tinidazole - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅C. Epididymis
The following is true about syphilis:
A. It progresses through a series of six phases
B. People remain contagious until the disease is cured
C. Zovirax is the preferred treatment
D. A chancre marks where the bacteria enters the body - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅D. A chancre
marks where the bacteria enters the body
The following is true about the combined pill:
ANSWERS
The word puberty is derived from a Latin word meaning to:
A. Develop sex muscles
B. Grow hairy
C. Shed baby fat
D. Begin adulthood - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅B. Grow hairy
The following is true about the timing of puberty in girls:
A. Girls begin puberty between ages 9 and 12
B. Girls reach their full height by about age 21
C. Boys begin puberty about two years earlier than do girls
D. Boys tend to become interested in girls before girls begin noticing boys - CORRECT
ANSWER✅✅✅A. Girls begin puberty between ages 9 and 12
The tendency for people to generally grow taller and bigger than they did a century ago is called the:
A. Secondary sex characteristics anomaly
B. Secular trend
C. Adrenal custom
D. Musculature precedence - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅B. Secular trend
All of the following are true about nocturnal emissions in boys except:
A. They most commonly occur approximately once a month during the late teens
B. They continue up to the age of 40
C. They provide a natural means of relieving sexual tension
D. They are not always accompanied by sexual dreams - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅B. They continue
up to the age of 40
,All of the following are true about early maturing boys as opposed to late maturing boys except:
A. They tend to feel inferior
B. They tend to have better self-concepts
C. They are more likely to get in to trouble with drugs and alcohol
D. They tend to be more popular - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅A. They tend to feel inferior
Early-maturing girls:
A. Tend to get into less trouble than late-maturing girls
B. Outperform other students on school achievement tests
C. Tend to experience more problems in school
D. Achieve more in their work careers during adulthood - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅C. Tend to
experience more problems in school
Compared to the United States, adolescent behavior in Canada concerning alcohol and other drug use is:
A. Less extensive
B. Comparable
C. More extensive - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅B. Comparable
Variables putting adolescents at risk for alcohol and other substance abuse are clustered into all of the
following categories except:
A. Peer influences
B. Environmental factors
C. Parental factors
D. Biological adjuncts - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅D. Biological adjuncts
Of all adolescent pregnancies that occur each year, ______ percent are aborted.
A. 12
B. 32
C. 52
,D. 72 - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅B. 32
Which of the following is true:
A. Differences in patterns of sexual activity may relate more to poverty than to race or ethnicity
B. White and Hispanic teenagers are more likely to have sexual intercourse than their African American
counterparts
C. One half of Hispanic females have sexual intercourse by age 13
D. Research has found that parental supervision and involvement has no influence on the timing of the
first sexual intercourse for adolescents - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅A. Differences in patterns of sexual
activity may relate more to poverty than to race or ethnicity
Approximately _____ percent of teen mothers in the United States are single.
A. 60
B. 70
C. 80
D. 90 - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅C. 80
The following is true of children born to adolescent mothers compared to those born to adult mothers:
A. They tend to have more emotional, intellectual, and physical problems than their counterparts born
to adult mothers
B. They tend to have higher IQs than their counterparts born to adult mothers
C. They tend to be higher achievers as they grow than their counterparts born to adult mothers
D. They have a lower mortality rate than babies born to adult mothers - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅A.
They tend to have more emotional, intellectual, and physical problems than their counterparts born to
adult mothers
_____ percent of female adolescents use no contraception during sexual intercourse.
A. 9
B. 19
C. 29
D. 39 - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅B. 19
, According to public opinion polls in the United States and Canada, ____ percent of parents of junior
high-age students indicate that it is very or somewhat important to have sexuality education as part of
the school curriculum.
A. 33
B. 53
C. 73
D. 93 - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅D. 93
SIECUS recommends that a comprehensive sex education program should have all of the following goals
except:
A. Attitudes, values, and insights
B. Information
C. Responsibility
D. Abstinence - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅D. Abstinence
The structure along the back of each testis in which sperm maturation occurs is called the:
A. Cowper's glands
B. Vas deferens
C. Epididymis
D. Tinidazole - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅C. Epididymis
The following is true about syphilis:
A. It progresses through a series of six phases
B. People remain contagious until the disease is cured
C. Zovirax is the preferred treatment
D. A chancre marks where the bacteria enters the body - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅D. A chancre
marks where the bacteria enters the body
The following is true about the combined pill:
