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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When were birth control pills first approved for contraceptive use in the United States?
(a) 1967.
(b) 1952.
(c) 1984.
(d) 1960.

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

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

4. According to the author in Chapter 5, "The Etiquette of Masculinity and Femininity,” traditional etiquette dominated American manners from the 1930s to when?
(a) The 1950s.
(b) The 1980s.
(c) The 1960s.
(d) The 1940s.

5. Beth Bailey asserts that courtship has been replaced by what in the book’s Epilogue?
(a) Arranged marriages.
(b) Financial greed.
(c) Sex.
(d) Homosexuality.

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

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

8. What grew and produced tension between generations in Chapter 4, "Sex Control"?
(a) New sexual conventions.
(b) Technological advances.
(c) Religious attitudes.
(d) Marriage laws.

9. According to the author in the Epilogue, sexual intercourse replaced what as the youth convention during the sexual revolution?
(a) Displaying.
(b) Petting.
(c) Wooing.
(d) Courting.

10. From Front Porch to Back Seat was published in what year?
(a) 1990.
(b) 1919.
(c) 1945.
(d) 1988.

11. 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) Male.
(c) Female.
(d) Homosexual.

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

13. 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?
(a) Be more traditional.
(b) Rescue men.
(c) Honor the church.
(d) Honor their parents.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When was Sigmund Freud born?

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

3. Marriage education courses began at the University of North Carolina in what year?

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

5. The sexual revolution was primarily a revolution in what, according to the author in the Epilogue?

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