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

2. Where was Ernest Burgess born?
(a) Vancouver, British Columbia.
(b) Winnipeg, Manitoba.
(c) Whitehorse, Yukon Territory.
(d) Tilbury, Ontario.

3. In the Epilogue, Bailey notes that it had been how long since the dating system lost its coherence and dominance?
(a) 25 years.
(b) 40 years.
(c) 60 years.
(d) 75 years.

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

5. Ernest Burgess and his adherents were part of a large twentieth-century movement to centralize power in response to the unorganized forces of what?
(a) Tradition.
(b) Modernization.
(c) Science.
(d) War.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who were blamed for the breakdown in gender identity, according to the author in Chapter 5, "The Etiquette of Masculinity and Femininity”?

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

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

4. What word from Chapter 4, "Sex Control” means refraining from sexual intercourse that is regarded as contrary to morality or religion?

5. According to the author in Chapter 5, "The Etiquette of Masculinity and Femininity,” in the new media literature, masculinity was associated with what?

Short Essay Questions

1. 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"?

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

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

4. How do American youth feel about the lack of clarity in the rules of contemporary dating according to the author in the Epilogue?

5. What societal movement was Ernest Burgess associated with? What were the goals of this movement?

6. What role did the media play in reinforcing masculinity and femininity according to the author in Chapter 5, "The Etiquette of Masculinity and Femininity"?

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

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

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

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

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