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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 to become aware of, know, or identify by means of the senses?
(a) Perceive.
(b) Abolish.
(c) Ridicule.
(d) Trance.

2. The power of what declined as women entered the workforce according to the author in Chapter 4, "Sex Control"?
(a) Schools.
(b) Men.
(c) Churches.
(d) Family.

3. What grew and produced tension between generations in Chapter 4, "Sex Control"?
(a) Religious attitudes.
(b) Marriage laws.
(c) New sexual conventions.
(d) Technological advances.

4. In the Epilogue, Bailey notes that it had been how long since the dating system lost its coherence and dominance?
(a) 25 years.
(b) 75 years.
(c) 60 years.
(d) 40 years.

5. What term refers to a person's sex drive or desire for sexual activity?
(a) Hormones.
(b) Libido.
(c) Abstinence.
(d) Intercourse.

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

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

8. According to the author in Chapter 4, "Sex Control,” twentieth century discourse was based on youth and what?
(a) Homosexual experience.
(b) Religious extremes.
(c) Heterosexual premarital experience.
(d) Economic wealth.

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

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

11. According to the author in Chapter 5, "The Etiquette of Masculinity and Femininity,” many came to believe for biological reasons that being what was natural to humanity?
(a) Heterosexual.
(b) Male.
(c) Homosexual.
(d) Female.

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

13. According to the author in Chapter 5, "The Etiquette of Masculinity and Femininity,” traditional etiquette dominated American manners from the 1930s to when?
(a) The 1950s.
(b) The 1980s.
(c) The 1960s.
(d) The 1940s.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the author in Chapter 6, "Scientific Truth ... and Love" love and marriage were to be regulated by whom?

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

3. 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”?

4. According to the author in Chapter 4, "Sex Control,” those born between 1900 and when grew up with new understandings of sexuality?

5. What word from the Epilogue refers to a period in a field of endeavor when great tasks were accomplished?

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