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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. What word from Chapter 4, "Sex Control" means amorous caressing and kissing?
(a) Petting.
(b) Condoning.
(c) Fondling.
(d) Harassment.

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

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

12. 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"?
(a) 1952.
(b) 1960.
(c) 1939.
(d) 1963.

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

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

15. 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) Easy.
(b) Evil.
(c) Liars.
(d) Bad.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the author in Chapter 5, "The Etiquette of Masculinity and Femininity,” women were encouraged to make an effort to become more feminine, partly to do what?

2. What word from the book means pertaining to or characteristic of a man or men?

3. According to the author in Chapter 5, "The Etiquette of Masculinity and Femininity,” in the new media literature, masculinity was associated with what?

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

5. According to the author in Chapter 6, "Scientific Truth ... and Love" love and marriage were to be regulated by whom?

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