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

2. Bailey proposes that metaphors of economy replaced metaphors of what in the Epilogue?
(a) Manners and conscience.
(b) Home and family.
(c) Religion.
(d) Folklore.

3. According to the author in Chapter 6, "Scientific Truth ... and Love" love and marriage were to be regulated by whom?
(a) Elites.
(b) Peasants.
(c) Men.
(d) Women.

4. According to the author in Chapter 5, "The Etiquette of Masculinity and Femininity,” in the new media literature, masculinity was associated with what?
(a) Morality.
(b) Submission.
(c) Dominance.
(d) Success.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. According to the author in Chapter 4, "Sex Control,” those born between 1900 and when grew up with new understandings of sexuality?

3. What word from the Epilogue refers to a period in a field of endeavor when great tasks were accomplished?

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

5. What did not differ in the first four decades of the twentieth century from their nineteenth century counterparts?

Short Essay Questions

1. When did marriage education courses begin at the University of North Carolina? Who initiated this program?

2. How were gender roles defined in the 1950s? How long was this view dominant in American society?

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

4. How did the category of “American youth” change from the nineteenth to the twentieth century?

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

6. How was the crisis of femininity treated in mid-twentieth century America?

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

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

9. How did physical displays of affection evolve in the early part of the twentieth century?

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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