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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. According to the author in Chapter 4, "Sex Control,” twentieth century discourse was based on youth and what?
(a) Heterosexual premarital experience.
(b) Economic wealth.
(c) Homosexual experience.
(d) Religious extremes.

3. What refers to the unlawful compelling of a person through physical force or duress to have sexual intercourse?
(a) Harassment.
(b) Arson.
(c) Rape.
(d) Abstinence.

4. What is the first of the six themes of courtship described by the author in Chapter 6, "Scientific Truth ... and Love"?
(a) Consumption.
(b) Competition.
(c) The sexual economy.
(d) Control.

5. What is the psychological attempt by an individual to repel one's own desires and impulses towards pleasurable instincts?
(a) Aggression.
(b) Consumption.
(c) Repression.
(d) Persuasion.

6. What were once safe and embedded in kinship relations, church, and community according to the author in Chapter 6, "Scientific Truth ... and Love"?
(a) Neighbors.
(b) Friends.
(c) Families.
(d) Governments.

7. What word from the book means having qualities traditionally ascribed to women?
(a) Paradox.
(b) Etiquette.
(c) Masculine.
(d) Feminine.

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

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

10. What word from Chapter 4, "Sex Control” means to utilize, especially for profit?
(a) Control.
(b) Exploit.
(c) Donate.
(d) Harvest.

11. The six themes of courtship described by the author in Chapter 6, "Scientific Truth ... and Love" all arose from sweeping social forces that came from what?
(a) The Civil Rights Movement.
(b) Modernization.
(c) Evolution.
(d) The Industrial Revolution.

12. When did college campuses begin to offer marriage courses?
(a) The 1940s.
(b) The 1950s.
(c) The 1970s.
(d) The 1920s

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

14. According to the author in Chapter 5, "The Etiquette of Masculinity and Femininity,” gender identities had to be acquired and demonstrated and etiquette became what that governed courtship rituals?
(a) A complex code.
(b) A politically regulated code.
(c) A church-regulated code.
(d) A simple code.

15. What is the third of the six themes of courtship described by the author in Chapter 6, "Scientific Truth ... and Love"?
(a) Consumption.
(b) Control.
(c) The sexual economy.
(d) Competition.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the fourth of the six themes of courtship described by the author in Chapter 6, "Scientific Truth ... and Love"?

2. According to the author in the Epilogue, sexual intercourse replaced what as the youth convention during the sexual revolution?

3. The sexual revolution was primarily a revolution in what, according to the author in the Epilogue?

4. The rise of national youth culture meant that what divisions mattered more than the divisions between boy and girl?

5. When did Ernest Burgess die?

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