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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) 1940.
(c) 1930.
(d) 1960.

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

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

4. What did not differ in the first four decades of the twentieth century from their nineteenth century counterparts?
(a) The average age of marriage.
(b) The sexual behaviors of youth.
(c) Life expectancy.
(d) Infant mortality.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What word from the book means having qualities traditionally ascribed to women?

2. In the Epilogue, Bailey notes that it had been how long since the dating system lost its coherence and dominance?

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

4. 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?

5. What word from Chapter 4, "Sex Control" means amorous caressing and kissing?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who was blamed for the breakdown in gender identity? Why?

2. What six themes of courtship does the author describe in Chapter 6, "Scientific Truth ... and Love"?

3. What does the author note about the past twenty-five years in her Epilogue?

4. What threatened gender identity in the twentieth century, according to the author in Chapter 5, "The Etiquette of Masculinity and Femininity"?

5. How did American youth come to define themselves after World War II? What tensions did this cause?

6. What paradox of gender etiquette does the author describe in Chapter 5, "The Etiquette of Masculinity and Femininity"?

7. According to the author in the Epilogue, the sexual revolution was primarily a revolution in meaning. What does she mean by this?

8. What results arose from the pairing of youth and sex in the twentieth century according to the author in Chapter 4, "Sex Control"?

9. What did the new sexual innovations represent symbolically to American youth in the period between World War I and the sexual revolution?

10. What role did the media play in reinforcing masculinity and femininity according to the author in Chapter 5, "The Etiquette of Masculinity and Femininity"?

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