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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. When did college campuses begin to offer marriage courses?
2. The sexual revolution began in what decade?
3. Where was Sigmund Freud born?
4. Parents responded to youth’s sexual freedom by limiting their children’s privacy and setting up what, according to the author in Chapter 4, "Sex Control”?
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?
Short Essay Questions
1. When did marriage education courses begin at the University of North Carolina? Who initiated this program?
2. What does the author note about the past twenty-five years in her Epilogue?
3. What metaphors have replaced the metaphors of economy, according to the author in the Epilogue?
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. How does the author describe the sexual behavior of youth in the early twentieth century in Chapter 4, "Sex Control"?
6. How did the category of “American youth” change from the nineteenth to the twentieth century?
7. Who was blamed for the breakdown in gender identity? Why?
8. What did the new sexual innovations represent symbolically to American youth in the period between World War I and the sexual revolution?
9. What role did the media play in reinforcing masculinity and femininity according to the author in Chapter 5, "The Etiquette of Masculinity and Femininity"?
10. How was the crisis of femininity treated in mid-twentieth century America?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
The sexual exploitation of women within the dating system in the twentieth century in America. How did the media encourage the sexual exploitation of women? Can this still be seen in the media and advertising today? What is the underlying message in such contemporary ads such as beer ads which depict women as sexual commodities?
Essay Topic 2
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 3
Describe and discuss the principle demographics studied in the book. Why does author Bailey choose to focus on the mainstream, middle-class youth? What does she assert can be assessed by examining the mainstream? What groups are left out in the book and why?
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