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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) Men.
(b) Politicians.
(c) Clergy.
(d) Women.

2. What book by Ernest Burgess was one of the most influential sociology texts ever written?
(a) A Freudian Approach to Psychology.
(b) Introduction to the Science of Sociology.
(c) Sociology and the Sexual Being.
(d) The Man-Woman Relationship.

3. What word from the book refers to conventional requirements as to social behavior?
(a) Etiquette.
(b) Paradox.
(c) Feminine.
(d) Masculine.

4. 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) Be more traditional.
(d) Honor their parents.

5. What consists of the processes in the mind that occur automatically and are not available to introspection?
(a) The unconscious mind.
(b) The natural mind.
(c) The biological mind.
(d) The psychic mind.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the fourth of the six themes of courtship described by the author in Chapter 6, "Scientific Truth ... and Love"?

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

3. Bailey proposes that metaphors of economy replaced metaphors of what in the Epilogue?

4. What word from the book means pertaining to or characteristic of a man or men?

5. Marriage education courses began at the University of North Carolina in what year?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. How did Freudian psychology influence the perceptions of the sexes in the mid-twentieth century?

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

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

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