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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. In what year does the author say that a sociologist was one of the most important members of the marriage-education movement in Chapter 6, "Scientific Truth ... and Love"?
(a) 1963.
(b) 1960.
(c) 1952.
(d) 1939.

2. What became a power struggle for freedom, equality, and autonomy according to the author in the Epilogue?
(a) Necking.
(b) Dating.
(c) Sex.
(d) Marriage.

3. The rise of national youth culture meant that what divisions mattered more than the divisions between boy and girl?
(a) Financial divisions.
(b) Young and old.
(c) Religious divisions.
(d) Republican and Democrat.

4. According to the author in Chapter 4, "Sex Control,” twentieth century discourse was based on youth and what?
(a) Economic wealth.
(b) Heterosexual premarital experience.
(c) Religious extremes.
(d) Homosexual experience.

5. Where was Sigmund Freud born?
(a) France.
(b) Austria.
(c) Sweden.
(d) Poland.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the Epilogue, Bailey notes that it had been how long since the dating system lost its coherence and dominance?

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

3. Ernest Burgess and his adherents were part of a large twentieth-century movement to centralize power in response to the unorganized forces of what?

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 Beth Bailey asserts that courtship has been replaced by what in the book’s Epilogue?

5. What did not differ in the first four decades of the twentieth century from their nineteenth century counterparts?

Short Essay Questions

1. What results arose from the pairing of youth and sex in the twentieth century according to the author in Chapter 4, "Sex Control"?

2. 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"?

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

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 threatened gender identity in the twentieth century, 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. When did marriage education courses begin at the University of North Carolina? Who initiated this program?

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

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

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

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