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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. The crisis of femininity was what to the crisis of masculinity, according to the author in Chapter 5, "The Etiquette of Masculinity and Femininity"?
(a) Subordinated.
(b) Superseded.
(c) Superimposed.
(d) Elevated.

3. 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) Folk wisdom.
(b) Social norms.
(c) Spiritual laws.
(d) Common decency.

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

5. What became the symbol of youth culture according to the author in Chapter 4, "Sex Control"?
(a) Reading.
(b) Drugs.
(c) Sex.
(d) Music.

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

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

8. 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.

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

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

11. According to the author in Chapter 4, "Sex Control,” those born between 1900 and when grew up with new understandings of sexuality?
(a) 1940.
(b) 1910.
(c) 1930.
(d) 1960.

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

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

14. According to the author in Chapter 4, "Sex Control,” women often responded to the system of dating and sex by trying to “seem” respectable but privately engaging in illicit sexual activity, resulting in the rumors about good girls in reality being what?
(a) Bad.
(b) Easy.
(c) Liars.
(d) Evil.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year does the author say that a sociologist was one of the most important members of the marriage-education movement in Chapter 6, "Scientific Truth ... and Love"?

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

3. The system of dating and sex made who the controllers of sex as they had to enforce sexual limits, according to the author in Chapter 4, "Sex Control”?

4. What term referred to caresses above the neck, according to the author in Chapter 4, "Sex Control"?

5. Who were blamed for the breakdown in gender identity, according to the author in Chapter 5, "The Etiquette of Masculinity and Femininity”?

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