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

2. What is a technique used in psychoanalysis which was originally devised by Sigmund Freud out of the hypnotic method of Josef Breuer?
(a) Sexuality tests.
(b) Limited association.
(c) Free association.
(d) IQ tests.

3. 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) Competition.
(c) Consumption.
(d) Control.

4. When did college campuses begin to offer marriage courses?
(a) The 1970s.
(b) The 1940s.
(c) The 1950s.
(d) The 1920s

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The new freedoms of the sexual revolution did what to the rules, according to the author in the Epilogue?

2. What term refers to a person's sex drive or desire for sexual activity?

3. What word from Chapter 4, "Sex Control" means to become aware of, know, or identify by means of the senses?

4. Beth Bailey asserts that courtship has been replaced by what in the book’s Epilogue?

5. What book by Ernest Burgess was one of the most influential sociology texts ever written?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. 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"?

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

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

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

8. How did the rise of a national youth culture change the power structure in America, according to the author in Chapter 4, "Sex Control"?

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

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

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