Quiz for Evaluating the Evidence 22.2: Stephan Zweig on Middle-Class Youth and Sexuality

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1. According to Zweig, how did nineteenth-century authorities view young women’s sexuality?

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Correct. The answer is a. According to Zweig, nineteenth-century authorities closed their eyes to the realities of female sexuality and imposed on young women an impossible ideal of moral and intellectual “purity.”
Incorrect. The answer is a. According to Zweig, nineteenth-century authorities closed their eyes to the realities of female sexuality and imposed on young women an impossible ideal of moral and intellectual “purity.”
1. According to Zweig, how did nineteenth-century authorities view young women’s sexuality?

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2. In Zweig’s view, why did nineteenth-century middle-class parents believe it was necessary to keep their daughters constantly occupied and constantly supervised?

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Correct. The answer is a. Fearing the danger of “erotic infection,” middle-class families sealed their daughters off from anything that could spark their sexuality.
Incorrect. The answer is a. Fearing the danger of “erotic infection,” middle-class families sealed their daughters off from anything that could spark their sexuality.
2. In Zweig’s view, why did nineteenth-century middle-class parents believe it was necessary to keep their daughters constantly occupied and constantly supervised?

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3. Zweig suggested that the repressed sexual attitudes he described were

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Correct. The answer is c. As Zweig described the situation, the lower classes had much more open and honest attitudes towards sexuality.
Incorrect. The answer is c. As Zweig described the situation, the lower classes had much more open and honest attitudes towards sexuality.
3. Zweig suggested that the repressed sexual attitudes he described were

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4. Which of these phenomenons did Zweig attribute to nineteenth-century sexual mores?

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Correct. The answer is b. Zweig contended that prostitution was much more common in the nineteenth century than in the early twentieth century—a fact he attributed to repressive nineteenth-century social mores.
Incorrect. The answer is b. Zweig contended that prostitution was much more common in the nineteenth century than in the early twentieth century—a fact he attributed to repressive nineteenth-century social mores.
4. Which of these phenomenons did Zweig attribute to nineteenth-century sexual mores?