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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 5, "The Etiquette of Masculinity and Femininity,” women were encouraged to make an effort to become more feminine, partly to do what?
(a) Honor the church.
(b) Rescue men.
(c) Honor their parents.
(d) Be more traditional.

2. What refers to the unlawful compelling of a person through physical force or duress to have sexual intercourse?
(a) Harassment.
(b) Arson.
(c) Rape.
(d) Abstinence.

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

4. What became threatened as people began to realize that gender roles were, at least partly, constructed and fluctuated between generations?
(a) Financial identity.
(b) Gender identity.
(c) Political identity.
(d) Moral identity.

5. A sociologist from what educational institution was one of the most important members of the marriage-education movement?
(a) Rutgers University.
(b) The University of Chicago.
(c) Harvard University.
(d) Yale University.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year does the author say that a sociologist was one of the most important members of the marriage-education movement in Chapter 6, "Scientific Truth ... and Love"?

2. What magazine does the author assert created a hideaway for men in Chapter 5, "The Etiquette of Masculinity and Femininity”?

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

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

5. The power of what declined as women entered the workforce according to the author in Chapter 4, "Sex Control"?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What did Ernest Burgess advocate doing in order to address the issue of courtship in America?

5. How does the author describe the sexual behavior of youth in the early twentieth century in Chapter 4, "Sex Control"?

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

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

9. How did the new freedoms brought about by the sexual revolution change the rules of dating?

10. Who was Ernest Burgess? What did he argue about changes in American attitudes toward marriage?

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