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 Beth Bailey asserts that courtship has been replaced by what in the book’s Epilogue?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

2. Who were blamed for the breakdown in gender identity, according to the author in Chapter 5, "The Etiquette of Masculinity and Femininity”?
(a) Men.
(b) Clergy.
(c) Politicians.
(d) Women.

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

4. The power of what declined as women entered the workforce according to the author in Chapter 4, "Sex Control"?
(a) Churches.
(b) Family.
(c) Men.
(d) Schools.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What grew and produced tension between generations in Chapter 4, "Sex Control"?

3. The sexual revolution was about the rights of who to express love sexually, according to the author in the Epilogue?

4. What became acceptable during the period of the sexual revolution?

5. 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?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How did the sexual revolution change the currency of courtship?

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

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

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

6. What innovations does the author describe in the sexual behaviors of youth between World War I and the sexual revolution in Chapter 4, "Sex Control"?

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

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

9. What were the strengths and weaknesses of marriage experts in the twentieth century?

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

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