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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 is the second of the six themes of courtship described by the author in Chapter 6, "Scientific Truth ... and Love"?
(a) Competition.
(b) The sexual economy.
(c) Control.
(d) Consumption.

2. According to the author in Chapter 4, "Sex Control,” many youths defined themselves as youth through what?
(a) Playing sports.
(b) Studying hard.
(c) Breaking the law.
(d) Public sexuality.

3. A sociologist argued that the changes in American attitudes towards marriage after World War I were the consequence of what in Chapter 6, "Scientific Truth ... and Love"?
(a) Spiritual and scientific changes.
(b) Changes in global politics.
(c) Technological and associated social changes.
(d) Changes in wealth distribution.

4. According to the author in the Epilogue, sexual intercourse replaced what as the youth convention during the sexual revolution?
(a) Courting.
(b) Petting.
(c) Displaying.
(d) Wooing.

5. What word in the book means a statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory or absurd but in reality expresses a possible truth?
(a) Etiquette.
(b) Paradox.
(c) Feminine.
(d) Masculine.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. When was Sigmund Freud born?

3. What word from the book means pertaining to or characteristic of a man or men?

4. What refers to the unlawful compelling of a person through physical force or duress to have sexual intercourse?

5. What term refers to a person's sex drive or desire for sexual activity?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. 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"?

3. What paradox of gender etiquette does the author describe in Chapter 5, "The Etiquette of Masculinity and Femininity"?

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

5. How was the crisis of femininity treated in mid-twentieth century America?

6. Who was Ernest Burgess? What did he argue about changes in American attitudes toward marriage?

7. According to the author in the Epilogue, the sexual revolution was primarily a revolution in meaning. What does she mean by this?

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

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

10. 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"?

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