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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What consists of legends, music, oral history, proverbs, jokes, popular beliefs, fairy tales, stories, tall tales, and customs that are the traditions of a culture, subculture, or group?

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

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

4. Who were blamed for the breakdown in gender identity, according to the author in Chapter 5, "The Etiquette of Masculinity and Femininity”?

5. When was Sigmund Freud born?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Describe and analyze the courtship system of “calling.” When did this system originate? How did it evolve over time? What differences existed between the American system of calling and the systems in Europe?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the emergence of school proms and the etiquette and culture surrounding them. When did these formal dances first originate? How were they supervised? When and why did the traditions of corsages and boutonnières appear? What costs were associated with early proms?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the rise in American youth culture and the association of youth culture with sexual experimentation. How and when did the sexual behavior of youth begin to evolve? What led to this change? How was the media involved in this evolution?

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