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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. According to the author in Chapter 4, "Sex Control,” parents tried to retain what of American womanhood?
(a) The “absolute purity.”
(b) The “moral integrity.”
(c) The “divine concept.”
(d) The “common decency.”

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

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

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”?
(a) Study schedules.
(b) Parent-teacher conferences.
(c) House rules.
(d) Curfews.

6. What magazine does the author assert created a hideaway for men in Chapter 5, "The Etiquette of Masculinity and Femininity”?
(a) Car and Driver.
(b) Sports Illustrated.
(c) Playboy.
(d) Backpacker.

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

8. Who were blamed for the breakdown in gender identity, according to the author in Chapter 5, "The Etiquette of Masculinity and Femininity”?
(a) Clergy.
(b) Men.
(c) Women.
(d) Politicians.

9. What became a power struggle for freedom, equality, and autonomy according to the author in the Epilogue?
(a) Dating.
(b) Sex.
(c) Necking.
(d) Marriage.

10. The power of what declined as women entered the workforce according to the author in Chapter 4, "Sex Control"?
(a) Churches.
(b) Family.
(c) Schools.
(d) Men.

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

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

13. 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”?
(a) Religious values.
(b) Economic values.
(c) Gender opposition.
(d) Traditional values.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Ernest Burgess and his adherents were part of a large twentieth-century movement to centralize power in response to the unorganized forces of what?

2. According to the author in Chapter 4, "Sex Control,” twentieth century discourse was based on youth and what?

3. What word from Chapter 4, "Sex Control" means to become aware of, know, or identify by means of the senses?

4. What is the psychological attempt by an individual to repel one's own desires and impulses towards pleasurable instincts?

5. The sexual revolution began in what decade?

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