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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. 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) Heterosexual.
(b) Homosexual.
(c) Male.
(d) Female.

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

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

6. A sociologist from what educational institution was one of the most important members of the marriage-education movement?
(a) The University of Chicago.
(b) Rutgers University.
(c) Yale University.
(d) Harvard University.

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

8. According to the author in Chapter 4, "Sex Control,” dating promoted what?
(a) Sexual experimentation.
(b) Social isolation.
(c) Long-lasting relationships.
(d) Democracy.

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

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

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

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

13. According to the author in Chapter 5, "The Etiquette of Masculinity and Femininity,” in the new media literature, masculinity was associated with what?
(a) Dominance.
(b) Submission.
(c) Morality.
(d) Success.

14. 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?
(a) Common decency.
(b) Social norms.
(c) Folk wisdom.
(d) Spiritual laws.

15. 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) Curfews.
(d) House rules.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. When did college campuses begin to offer marriage courses?

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

4. What magazine does the author assert created a hideaway for men in Chapter 5, "The Etiquette of Masculinity and Femininity”?

5. 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?

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