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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Ernest Burgess and his adherents were part of a large twentieth-century movement to centralize power in response to the unorganized forces of what?
(a) Tradition.
(b) Modernization.
(c) Science.
(d) War.

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

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

6. What is a technique used in psychoanalysis which was originally devised by Sigmund Freud out of the hypnotic method of Josef Breuer?
(a) Limited association.
(b) Free association.
(c) IQ tests.
(d) Sexuality tests.

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

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

9. A sociologist argued that the changes in American attitudes towards marriage after World War I were the consequence of what in Chapter 6, "Scientific Truth ... and Love"?
(a) Spiritual and scientific changes.
(b) Changes in global politics.
(c) Changes in wealth distribution.
(d) Technological and associated social changes.

10. The rise of national youth culture meant that what divisions mattered more than the divisions between boy and girl?
(a) Republican and Democrat.
(b) Young and old.
(c) Religious divisions.
(d) Financial divisions.

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 Beth Bailey asserts that courtship has been replaced by what in the book’s Epilogue?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

12. According to the author in Chapter 4, "Sex Control,” parents and authorities held the same line against sex that their parents had and this attitude remained unchanged for how long?
(a) The first quarter of the nineteenth century.
(b) The last quarter of the nineteenth century.
(c) The first two-thirds of the twentieth century.
(d) The first half of the twentieth century.

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

14. 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) The Industrial Revolution.
(c) Modernization.
(d) Evolution.

15. What word from the Epilogue means clearness or lucidity as to perception or understanding; freedom from indistinctness or ambiguity?
(a) Clarity.
(b) Translucency.
(c) Salinity.
(d) Opaqueness.

Short Answer Questions

1. What word from the book refers to conventional requirements as to social behavior?

2. According to the author in Chapter 4, "Sex Control,” dating promoted what?

3. 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”?

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

5. The sexual revolution was about the rights of who to express love sexually, according to the author in the Epilogue?

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