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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay 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) Ridicule.
(b) Perceive.
(c) Abolish.
(d) Trance.

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

3. 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) Parents.
(b) Men.
(c) Police.
(d) Women.

4. Premarital sex was not “conventional” until what decade, according to the author?
(a) 1940s.
(b) 1970s.
(c) 1960s.
(d) 1980s.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Bailey proposes that metaphors of economy replaced metaphors of what in the Epilogue?

2. What did not differ in the first four decades of the twentieth century from their nineteenth century counterparts?

3. Marriage education courses began at the University of North Carolina in what year?

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

5. What category does the author assert did not exist in the nineteenth century?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Freudian psychology influence the perceptions of the sexes in the mid-twentieth century?

2. What did Ernest Burgess advocate doing in order to address the issue of courtship in America?

3. What did the new sexual innovations represent symbolically to American youth in the period between World War I and the sexual revolution?

4. What paradox of gender etiquette does the author describe in Chapter 5, "The Etiquette of Masculinity and Femininity"?

5. How did the category of “American youth” change from the nineteenth to the twentieth century?

6. What six themes of courtship does the author describe in Chapter 6, "Scientific Truth ... and Love"?

7. What societal movement was Ernest Burgess associated with? What were the goals of this movement?

8. What metaphors have replaced the metaphors of economy, according to the author in the Epilogue?

9. How does the author describe the sexual behavior of youth in the early twentieth century in Chapter 4, "Sex Control"?

10. How did the sexual revolution change the currency of courtship?

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