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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. The system of dating and sex made who the controllers of sex as they had to enforce sexual limits, according to the author in Chapter 4, "Sex Control”?
(a) Women.
(b) Men.
(c) Parents.
(d) Police.

3. Sigmund Freud was known as the founding father of what?
(a) Dentistry.
(b) Psychoanalysis.
(c) Physics.
(d) Geology.

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

5. The new freedoms of the sexual revolution did what to the rules, according to the author in the Epilogue?
(a) Improved them.
(b) Elevated them.
(c) Clarified them.
(d) Ruined them.

6. During the sexual revolution, women fought for their sexuality to not be tied with what in the Epilogue?
(a) Moral upstanding.
(b) Woman’s value.
(c) Social expectations.
(d) Religious meaning.

7. The rise of national youth culture meant that what divisions mattered more than the divisions between boy and girl?
(a) Young and old.
(b) Financial divisions.
(c) Republican and Democrat.
(d) Religious divisions.

8. Where was Sigmund Freud born?
(a) Poland.
(b) Austria.
(c) France.
(d) Sweden.

9. 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”?
(a) Study schedules.
(b) House rules.
(c) Curfews.
(d) Parent-teacher conferences.

10. According to the author in Chapter 5, "The Etiquette of Masculinity and Femininity,” women were encouraged to make an effort to become more feminine, partly to do what?
(a) Be more traditional.
(b) Honor the church.
(c) Rescue men.
(d) Honor their parents.

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

12. A sociologist from what educational institution was one of the most important members of the marriage-education movement?
(a) Yale University.
(b) The University of Chicago.
(c) Rutgers University.
(d) Harvard University.

13. What became a power struggle for freedom, equality, and autonomy according to the author in the Epilogue?
(a) Dating.
(b) Necking.
(c) Marriage.
(d) Sex.

14. What is the psychological attempt by an individual to repel one's own desires and impulses towards pleasurable instincts?
(a) Aggression.
(b) Consumption.
(c) Repression.
(d) Persuasion.

15. What consists of the processes in the mind that occur automatically and are not available to introspection?
(a) The psychic mind.
(b) The biological mind.
(c) The natural mind.
(d) The unconscious mind.

Short Answer Questions

1. What word from Chapter 4, "Sex Control" means to become aware of, know, or identify by means of the senses?

2. According to the author in Chapter 4, "Sex Control,” women often responded to the system of dating and sex by trying to “seem” respectable but privately engaging in illicit sexual activity, resulting in the rumors about good girls in reality being what?

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

4. What term referred to caresses above the neck, according to the author in Chapter 4, "Sex Control"?

5. Beth Bailey asserts that courtship has been replaced by what in the book’s Epilogue?

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