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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. According to the author in Chapter 4, "Sex Control,” twentieth century discourse was based on youth and what?
(a) Economic wealth.
(b) Religious extremes.
(c) Heterosexual premarital experience.
(d) Homosexual experience.

3. During the sexual revolution, women fought for their sexuality to not be tied with what in the Epilogue?
(a) Woman’s value.
(b) Moral upstanding.
(c) Religious meaning.
(d) Social expectations.

4. 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) Parent-teacher conferences.
(b) Study schedules.
(c) House rules.
(d) Curfews.

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

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

7. The sexual revolution began in what decade?
(a) The 1940s.
(b) The 1930s.
(c) The 1970s.
(d) The 1960s.

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

9. According to the author in Chapter 6, "Scientific Truth ... and Love" love and marriage were to be regulated by whom?
(a) Elites.
(b) Women.
(c) Men.
(d) Peasants.

10. Bailey proposes that metaphors of revolution replaced metaphors of what in the Epilogue?
(a) Politics.
(b) Education.
(c) Family.
(d) Economy.

11. 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 two-thirds of the twentieth century.
(b) The first quarter of the nineteenth century.
(c) The first half of the twentieth century.
(d) The last quarter of the nineteenth century.

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

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

14. Where was Sigmund Freud born?
(a) Sweden.
(b) Poland.
(c) Austria.
(d) France.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is the study of mental illness, mental distress, and abnormal/maladaptive behavior?

3. When did Ernest Burgess die?

4. The sexual revolution lasted into what decade?

5. 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?

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