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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Sigmund Freud was known as the founding father of what?
(a) Dentistry.
(b) Geology.
(c) Physics.
(d) Psychoanalysis.

3. When was Ernest Burgess born?
(a) 1886.
(b) 1907.
(c) 1924.
(d) 1930.

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

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

6. What book by Ernest Burgess was one of the most influential sociology texts ever written?
(a) Sociology and the Sexual Being.
(b) The Man-Woman Relationship.
(c) Introduction to the Science of Sociology.
(d) A Freudian Approach to Psychology.

7. Pressures arose in the dating system for women to “act like” what, according to the author in Chapter 4, "Sex Control”?
(a) Nuns.
(b) Ladies.
(c) Queens.
(d) Princesses.

8. 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) Modernization.
(b) War.
(c) Tradition.
(d) Science.

9. Where was Ernest Burgess born?
(a) Tilbury, Ontario.
(b) Vancouver, British Columbia.
(c) Winnipeg, Manitoba.
(d) Whitehorse, Yukon Territory.

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

11. What word from Chapter 4, "Sex Control" means to become aware of, know, or identify by means of the senses?
(a) Ridicule.
(b) Trance.
(c) Abolish.
(d) Perceive.

12. What did not differ in the first four decades of the twentieth century from their nineteenth century counterparts?
(a) Life expectancy.
(b) Infant mortality.
(c) The sexual behaviors of youth.
(d) The average age of marriage.

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

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

15. Mid-twentieth century masculinity and femininity were defined in opposition to one another and are what today?
(a) Traditional sex roles.
(b) Contemporary sex roles.
(c) Futuristic sex roles.
(d) Obsolete.

Short Answer Questions

1. What consists of the processes in the mind that occur automatically and are not available to introspection?

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

3. What grew and produced tension between generations in Chapter 4, "Sex Control"?

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

5. Bailey proposes that metaphors of economy replaced metaphors of what in the Epilogue?

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