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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What word from Chapter 4, "Sex Control” means refraining from sexual intercourse that is regarded as contrary to morality or religion?
(a) Contagious.
(b) Corporate.
(c) Chaste.
(d) Conducive.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. The sexual revolution was about the rights of who to express love sexually, according to the author in the Epilogue?
(a) Heterosexuals.
(b) The unmarried.
(c) Homosexuals.
(d) The under-aged.

10. What term refers to a person's sex drive or desire for sexual activity?
(a) Intercourse.
(b) Abstinence.
(c) Libido.
(d) Hormones.

11. 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) Modernization.
(c) Evolution.
(d) The Industrial Revolution.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. 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?

3. What became a power struggle for freedom, equality, and autonomy according to the author in the Epilogue?

4. 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”?

5. What became the symbol of youth culture according to the author in Chapter 4, "Sex Control"?

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