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

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

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

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

5. What word from the Epilogue means clearness or lucidity as to perception or understanding; freedom from indistinctness or ambiguity?
(a) Salinity.
(b) Clarity.
(c) Opaqueness.
(d) Translucency.

Short Answer Questions

1. What book did Ernest Burgess write in 1939?

2. What word from Chapter 4, "Sex Control” means to utilize, especially for profit?

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

4. The sexual revolution was about the rights of who to express love sexually, according to the author in the Epilogue?

5. What consists of the processes in the mind that occur automatically and are not available to introspection?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who was blamed for the breakdown in gender identity? Why?

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

3. What role did the media play in reinforcing masculinity and femininity according to the author in Chapter 5, "The Etiquette of Masculinity and Femininity"?

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

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

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

7. What results arose from the pairing of youth and sex in the twentieth century according to the author in Chapter 4, "Sex Control"?

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

9. 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"?

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

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