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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. The crisis of femininity was what to the crisis of masculinity, according to the author in Chapter 5, "The Etiquette of Masculinity and Femininity"?
(a) Elevated.
(b) Superseded.
(c) Subordinated.
(d) Superimposed.

2. What word from the book means pertaining to or characteristic of a man or men?
(a) Feminine.
(b) Masculine.
(c) Etiquette.
(d) Paradox.

3. Premarital sex was not “conventional” until what decade, according to the author?
(a) 1940s.
(b) 1980s.
(c) 1970s.
(d) 1960s.

4. The system of dating and sex made who the controllers of sex as they had to enforce sexual limits, according to the author in Chapter 4, "Sex Control”?
(a) Women.
(b) Parents.
(c) Police.
(d) Men.

5. The sexual revolution was about the rights of who to express love sexually, according to the author in the Epilogue?
(a) The under-aged.
(b) Heterosexuals.
(c) The unmarried.
(d) Homosexuals.

Short Answer Questions

1. From Front Porch to Back Seat was published in what year?

2. What became threatened as people began to realize that gender roles were, at least partly, constructed and fluctuated between generations?

3. What book did Ernest Burgess write in 1939?

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

5. What is the psychological attempt by an individual to repel one's own desires and impulses towards pleasurable instincts?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. What reasons does the author assert that men and women submitted to the system of gender etiquette in Chapter 5, "The Etiquette of Masculinity and Femininity"?

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

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

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

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