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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When was Ernest Burgess born?
(a) 1930.
(b) 1924.
(c) 1886.
(d) 1907.

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

3. What word from the book refers to conventional requirements as to social behavior?
(a) Paradox.
(b) Etiquette.
(c) Feminine.
(d) Masculine.

4. According to the author in Chapter 4, "Sex Control,” parents tried to retain what of American womanhood?
(a) The “divine concept.”
(b) The “moral integrity.”
(c) The “absolute purity.”
(d) The “common decency.”

5. What were once safe and embedded in kinship relations, church, and community according to the author in Chapter 6, "Scientific Truth ... and Love"?
(a) Neighbors.
(b) Friends.
(c) Families.
(d) Governments.

6. When was Sigmund Freud born?
(a) 1926.
(b) 1811.
(c) 1856.
(d) 1904.

7. The sexual revolution was primarily a revolution in what, according to the author in the Epilogue?
(a) Fairness.
(b) Meaning.
(c) Acceptance.
(d) Tolerance.

8. The sexual revolution lasted into what decade?
(a) The 1950s.
(b) The 1990s.
(c) The 1960s.
(d) The 1980s.

9. From Front Porch to Back Seat was published in what year?
(a) 1945.
(b) 1919.
(c) 1990.
(d) 1988.

10. What became the symbol of youth culture according to the author in Chapter 4, "Sex Control"?
(a) Sex.
(b) Drugs.
(c) Reading.
(d) Music.

11. What word from Chapter 4, "Sex Control” means refraining from sexual intercourse that is regarded as contrary to morality or religion?
(a) Chaste.
(b) Contagious.
(c) Conducive.
(d) Corporate.

12. Bailey proposes that metaphors of revolution replaced metaphors of what in the Epilogue?
(a) Family.
(b) Education.
(c) Economy.
(d) Politics.

13. What category does the author assert did not exist in the nineteenth century?
(a) Interracial.
(b) Youth.
(c) Homosexual.
(d) Retired.

14. Marriage education courses began at the University of North Carolina in what year?
(a) 1944.
(b) 1927.
(c) 1912.
(d) 1898.

15. Who were blamed for the breakdown in gender identity, according to the author in Chapter 5, "The Etiquette of Masculinity and Femininity”?
(a) Clergy.
(b) Politicians.
(c) Men.
(d) Women.

Short Answer Questions

1. What word from Chapter 4, "Sex Control" means amorous caressing and kissing?

2. What word from the Epilogue means clearness or lucidity as to perception or understanding; freedom from indistinctness or ambiguity?

3. The rise of national youth culture meant that what divisions mattered more than the divisions between boy and girl?

4. 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"?

5. 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?

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