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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Beth Bailey asserts that courtship has been replaced by what in the book’s Epilogue?
(a) Homosexuality.
(b) Sex.
(c) Financial greed.
(d) Arranged marriages.

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

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

4. What word from Chapter 4, "Sex Control" means amorous caressing and kissing?
(a) Condoning.
(b) Petting.
(c) Harassment.
(d) Fondling.

5. What term referred to caresses above the neck, according to the author in Chapter 4, "Sex Control"?
(a) Squatting.
(b) Necking.
(c) Smirking.
(d) Fondling.

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

7. What is the study of mental illness, mental distress, and abnormal/maladaptive behavior?
(a) Biology.
(b) Meteorology.
(c) Psychopathology.
(d) Astrology.

8. Premarital sex was not “conventional” until what decade, according to the author?
(a) 1980s.
(b) 1970s.
(c) 1940s.
(d) 1960s.

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

10. When was Sigmund Freud born?
(a) 1904.
(b) 1856.
(c) 1811.
(d) 1926.

11. What word from Chapter 4, "Sex Control” means refraining from sexual intercourse that is regarded as contrary to morality or religion?
(a) Contagious.
(b) Chaste.
(c) Corporate.
(d) Conducive.

12. What grew and produced tension between generations in Chapter 4, "Sex Control"?
(a) New sexual conventions.
(b) Technological advances.
(c) Religious attitudes.
(d) Marriage laws.

13. 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?
(a) Male.
(b) Female.
(c) Homosexual.
(d) Heterosexual.

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

15. According to the author in Chapter 5, "The Etiquette of Masculinity and Femininity,” traditional etiquette dominated American manners from the 1930s to when?
(a) The 1950s.
(b) The 1980s.
(c) The 1960s.
(d) The 1940s.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Ernest Burgess die?

2. According to the author in Chapter 4, "Sex Control,” parents tried to retain what of American womanhood?

3. Mid-twentieth century masculinity and femininity were defined in opposition to one another and are what today?

4. When was Ernest Burgess born?

5. What consists of legends, music, oral history, proverbs, jokes, popular beliefs, fairy tales, stories, tall tales, and customs that are the traditions of a culture, subculture, or group?

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