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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Epilogue.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The average marriage age did what after World War II?
(a) Stayed the same.
(b) Increased significantly.
(c) Dropped significantly.
(d) Increased slightly.

2. When did Ernest Burgess die?
(a) 1922.
(b) 1966.
(c) 1945.
(d) 1975.

3. By the late nineteenth century, a new and coherent social group started to drive American cultural life. This new middle class arose during what period?
(a) The Agrarian Era.
(b) The Industrial Revolution.
(c) The Digital Revolution.
(d) The Great Awakening.

4. What was Beth Bailey defending when she appeared on television during her senior year of college?
(a) Coed dorms.
(b) Communal living.
(c) Homosexuality.
(d) Polygamy.

5. The new freedoms of the sexual revolution did what to the rules, according to the author in the Epilogue?
(a) Improved them.
(b) Clarified them.
(c) Elevated them.
(d) Ruined them.

Short Answer Questions

1. When were birth control pills first approved for contraceptive use in the United States?

2. What term referred to caresses above the neck, according to the author in Chapter 4, "Sex Control"?

3. The system of dating started in what community in the 1920s and quickly spread, according to the author in Chapter 2, "The Economy of Dating”?

4. 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”?

5. Parents responded to youth’s sexual freedom by limiting their children’s privacy and setting up what, according to the author in Chapter 4, "Sex Control”?

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