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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What consists of the processes in the mind that occur automatically and are not available to introspection?
(a) The natural mind.
(b) The biological mind.
(c) The psychic mind.
(d) The unconscious mind.

2. What category does the author assert did not exist in the nineteenth century?
(a) Interracial.
(b) Youth.
(c) Retired.
(d) Homosexual.

3. According to the author in Chapter 4, "Sex Control,” those born between 1900 and when grew up with new understandings of sexuality?
(a) 1930.
(b) 1960.
(c) 1940.
(d) 1910.

4. Bailey proposes that metaphors of economy replaced metaphors of what in the Epilogue?
(a) Folklore.
(b) Religion.
(c) Manners and conscience.
(d) Home and family.

5. When were birth control pills first approved for contraceptive use in the United States?
(a) 1960.
(b) 1967.
(c) 1952.
(d) 1984.

Short Answer Questions

1. One idea underlying the system of control in dating was the refusal of the older generation to allow the young to overcome what, according to the author in Chapter 4, "Sex Control”?

2. According to the author in Chapter 5, "The Etiquette of Masculinity and Femininity,” traditional etiquette dominated American manners from the 1930s to when?

3. According to the author in Chapter 5, "The Etiquette of Masculinity and Femininity,” many came to believe for biological reasons that being what was natural to humanity?

4. Beth Bailey asserts that courtship has been replaced by what in the book’s Epilogue?

5. What word from the book means having qualities traditionally ascribed to women?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did the new freedoms brought about by the sexual revolution change the rules of dating?

2. Who was Ernest Burgess? What did he argue about changes in American attitudes toward marriage?

3. How did the sexual revolution change the currency of courtship?

4. What did the new sexual innovations represent symbolically to American youth in the period between World War I and the sexual revolution?

5. What reasons does the author assert that men and women submitted to the system of gender etiquette in Chapter 5, "The Etiquette of Masculinity and Femininity"?

6. What metaphors have replaced the metaphors of economy, according to the author in the Epilogue?

7. How did physical displays of affection evolve in the early part of the twentieth century?

8. How did American youth come to define themselves after World War II? What tensions did this cause?

9. How were gender roles defined in the 1950s? How long was this view dominant in American society?

10. When did marriage education courses begin at the University of North Carolina? Who initiated this program?

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