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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 grew and produced tension between generations in Chapter 4, "Sex Control"?
2. According to the author in Chapter 5, "The Etiquette of Masculinity and Femininity,” in the new media literature, masculinity was associated with what?
3. 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"?
4. What book did Ernest Burgess write in 1939?
5. What is the fourth of the six themes of courtship described by the author in Chapter 6, "Scientific Truth ... and Love"?
Short Essay Questions
1. How did Freudian psychology influence the perceptions of the sexes in the mid-twentieth century?
2. How were gender roles defined in the 1950s? How long was this view dominant in American society?
3. What does the author note about the past twenty-five years in her Epilogue?
4. What were the strengths and weaknesses of marriage experts in the twentieth century?
5. How did the new freedoms brought about by the sexual revolution change the rules of dating?
6. How did physical displays of affection evolve in the early part of the twentieth century?
7. How did the sexual revolution change the currency of courtship?
8. What results arose from the pairing of youth and sex in the twentieth century according to the author in Chapter 4, "Sex Control"?
9. Who was blamed for the breakdown in gender identity? Why?
10. What paradox of gender etiquette does the author describe in Chapter 5, "The Etiquette of Masculinity and Femininity"?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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?
Essay Topic 2
Discuss the etiquette, traditions, and culture of the female American college student in the early twentieth century. How many women went to colleges at this time? When did coed universities emerge? How did women in college influence the systems of courtship?
Essay Topic 3
Discuss the marriage rates, demographics, and perceptions during the post-World War II era in the United States. How did parents and authority figures feel about marrying young? Why was marriage seen as a celebration of youth at this time? How long did this viewpoint last in mainstream society?
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