ProCon’s Birth Control Quiz
- Question: Which is a common argument in favor of over-the-counter birth control pills?
- Answer: This is a common argument in favor of over-the-counter birth control pills.
- Question: The 16-page pamphlet on birth control called Family Limitation, written by nurse and social reformer Margaret Sanger and released in 1914, was called “a Sing Sing job” by a printer. What did this mean?
- Answer: The phrase entailed all of these things.
- Question: Which of the following is true about birth control pills?
- Answer: All of these answers are true.
- Question: Which is the earliest known medical text to discuss contraception?
- Answer: The Kahun Gynaecological Papyrus (also called the Petrie Medical Papyrus for British Egyptologist Flinders Petrie, who discovered the Egyptian document) is the oldest known medical text and the earliest known discussion of contraception, written about 1825 bce.
- Question: About what percentage of American women aged 15–49 use some form of contraception?
- Answer: About 65 percent of American women aged 15–49 use some form of contraception.
- Question: Which of the following is true about “placebos” and “placebo pills,” commonly used in birth-control regimens?
- Answer: All of these are true.
- Question: Who founded the birth control movement in the United States and is credited with coining the term “birth control”?
- Answer: Nurse and social reformer Margaret Sanger (1879–1966) founded the birth control movement in the United States and is credited with originating the term “birth control.”
- Question: Oral contraceptive pills come in which form?
- Answer: Oral contraceptive pills come in all of these forms.
- Question: Which is the most commonly used form of reversible contraception in the United States?
- Answer: Birth control pills are the most commonly used form of reversible contraception in the United States, used by approximately 14 percent of women aged 15–49 (18 percent of American women opt for sterilization, but this is not considered a reversible method of birth control).
- Question: When discussing prescription drugs, what does OTC mean?
- Answer: OTC means “over the counter.”
- Question: Which is a common argument against over-the-counter birth control pills?
- Answer: This is a common argument against over-the-counter birth control pills.
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