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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What word in the book means a statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory or absurd but in reality expresses a possible truth?
(a) Etiquette.
(b) Feminine.
(c) Paradox.
(d) Masculine.

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

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

5. What word from the book means having qualities traditionally ascribed to women?
(a) Masculine.
(b) Etiquette.
(c) Feminine.
(d) Paradox.

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

7. 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) Evolution.
(b) The Industrial Revolution.
(c) Modernization.
(d) The Civil Rights Movement.

8. One idea underlying the system of control in dating was the refusal of the older generation to allow the young to overcome what, according to the author in Chapter 4, "Sex Control”?
(a) Economic values.
(b) Gender opposition.
(c) Religious values.
(d) Traditional values.

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

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

11. What word from the Epilogue means clearness or lucidity as to perception or understanding; freedom from indistinctness or ambiguity?
(a) Clarity.
(b) Translucency.
(c) Salinity.
(d) Opaqueness.

12. What word from the book means pertaining to or characteristic of a man or men?
(a) Etiquette.
(b) Feminine.
(c) Masculine.
(d) Paradox.

13. What category does the author assert did not exist in the nineteenth century?
(a) Youth.
(b) Interracial.
(c) Retired.
(d) Homosexual.

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

15. 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 1940s.
(b) The 1950s.
(c) The 1980s.
(d) The 1960s.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the author in Chapter 4, "Sex Control,” dating promoted what?

2. What book did Ernest Burgess write in 1939?

3. According to the author in Chapter 4, "Sex Control,” many youths defined themselves as youth through what?

4. What word from the book refers to conventional requirements as to social behavior?

5. What refers to the unlawful compelling of a person through physical force or duress to have sexual intercourse?

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