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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What word from the Epilogue refers to a period in a field of endeavor when great tasks were accomplished?
(a) Inspirational Age.
(b) Golden Age.
(c) Iron Age.
(d) Digital Age.

2. What became threatened as people began to realize that gender roles were, at least partly, constructed and fluctuated between generations?
(a) Gender identity.
(b) Financial identity.
(c) Moral identity.
(d) Political identity.

3. What word from the book means pertaining to or characteristic of a man or men?
(a) Paradox.
(b) Feminine.
(c) Masculine.
(d) Etiquette.

4. According to the author in Chapter 4, "Sex Control,” many youths defined themselves as youth through what?
(a) Playing sports.
(b) Studying hard.
(c) Public sexuality.
(d) Breaking the law.

5. In the Epilogue, Bailey notes that it had been how long since the dating system lost its coherence and dominance?
(a) 75 years.
(b) 40 years.
(c) 60 years.
(d) 25 years.

6. The sexual revolution lasted into what decade?
(a) The 1980s.
(b) The 1960s.
(c) The 1990s.
(d) The 1950s.

7. According to the author in Chapter 5, "The Etiquette of Masculinity and Femininity,” women were encouraged to make an effort to become more feminine, partly to do what?
(a) Honor their parents.
(b) Be more traditional.
(c) Rescue men.
(d) Honor the church.

8. What book by Ernest Burgess was one of the most influential sociology texts ever written?
(a) A Freudian Approach to Psychology.
(b) The Man-Woman Relationship.
(c) Sociology and the Sexual Being.
(d) Introduction to the Science of Sociology.

9. 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) 1940.
(c) 1960.
(d) 1910.

10. What word from the book refers to conventional requirements as to social behavior?
(a) Feminine.
(b) Etiquette.
(c) Paradox.
(d) Masculine.

11. Mid-twentieth century masculinity and femininity were defined in opposition to one another and are what today?
(a) Futuristic sex roles.
(b) Obsolete.
(c) Contemporary sex roles.
(d) Traditional sex roles.

12. The sexual revolution was about the rights of who to express love sexually, according to the author in the Epilogue?
(a) The unmarried.
(b) Heterosexuals.
(c) Homosexuals.
(d) The under-aged.

13. According to the author in Chapter 6, "Scientific Truth ... and Love" love and marriage were to be regulated by whom?
(a) Women.
(b) Peasants.
(c) Elites.
(d) Men.

14. In what year does the author say that a sociologist was one of the most important members of the marriage-education movement in Chapter 6, "Scientific Truth ... and Love"?
(a) 1963.
(b) 1939.
(c) 1952.
(d) 1960.

15. What became acceptable during the period of the sexual revolution?
(a) Living together.
(b) Marriage.
(c) Drug use.
(d) Heterosexuality.

Short Answer Questions

1. The crisis of femininity was what to the crisis of masculinity, according to the author in Chapter 5, "The Etiquette of Masculinity and Femininity"?

2. The new freedoms of the sexual revolution did what to the rules, according to the author in the Epilogue?

3. What did not differ in the first four decades of the twentieth century from their nineteenth century counterparts?

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

5. What became the symbol of youth culture according to the author in Chapter 4, "Sex Control"?

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