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

2. The sexual revolution lasted into what decade?
(a) The 1950s.
(b) The 1980s.
(c) The 1960s.
(d) The 1990s.

3. According to the author in Chapter 5, "The Etiquette of Masculinity and Femininity,” gender identities had to be acquired and demonstrated and etiquette became what that governed courtship rituals?
(a) A complex code.
(b) A simple code.
(c) A church-regulated code.
(d) A politically regulated code.

4. From Front Porch to Back Seat was published in what year?
(a) 1945.
(b) 1988.
(c) 1919.
(d) 1990.

5. When was Sigmund Freud born?
(a) 1926.
(b) 1811.
(c) 1904.
(d) 1856.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is a technique used in psychoanalysis which was originally devised by Sigmund Freud out of the hypnotic method of Josef Breuer?

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

3. Parents responded to youth’s sexual freedom by limiting their children’s privacy and setting up what, according to the author in Chapter 4, "Sex Control”?

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?

5. Where was Ernest Burgess born?

Short Essay Questions

1. What metaphors have replaced the metaphors of economy, according to the author in the Epilogue?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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