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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 acceptable during the period of the sexual revolution?
(a) Living together.
(b) Marriage.
(c) Drug use.
(d) Heterosexuality.

2. 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 psychic mind.
(d) The biological mind.

3. Pressures arose in the dating system for women to “act like” what, according to the author in Chapter 4, "Sex Control”?
(a) Ladies.
(b) Nuns.
(c) Princesses.
(d) Queens.

4. What is a technique used in psychoanalysis which was originally devised by Sigmund Freud out of the hypnotic method of Josef Breuer?
(a) Free association.
(b) Limited association.
(c) IQ tests.
(d) Sexuality tests.

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) Science.
(b) War.
(c) Tradition.
(d) Modernization.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

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

3. One idea underlying the system of control in dating was the refusal of the older generation to allow the young to overcome what, according to the author in Chapter 4, "Sex Control”?

4. What became a power struggle for freedom, equality, and autonomy according to the author in the Epilogue?

5. 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”?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What were the strengths and weaknesses of marriage experts in the twentieth century?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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