Quiz for Listening to the Past: Stefan Zweig on Middle-Class Youth and Sexuality

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Correct: The answer is c. According to Zweig, the social conventions of his day were profoundly shaped by sexuality, at the same time that they prohibited any open discussion of it.
Incorrect: The answer is c. According to Zweig, the social conventions of his day were profoundly shaped by sexuality, at the same time that they prohibited any open discussion of it.
1. According to Zweig, which of these subjects was taboo in the Vienna of his youth?

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Correct: The answer is a. Zweig described a sexual double standard in which men where acknowledged to have sexual desires but women were not.
Incorrect: The answer is a. Zweig described a sexual double standard in which men where acknowledged to have sexual desires but women were not.
2. According to Zweig, which of these was a basic premise of late-nineteenth-century social morality?

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Correct: The answer is d. Zweig described a world in which girls were placed in a “completely sterilized atmosphere, from the day of her birth until the day when she left the altar on her husband’s arm.”
Incorrect: The answer is d. Zweig described a world in which girls were placed in a “completely sterilized atmosphere, from the day of her birth until the day when she left the altar on her husband’s arm.”
3. Which of these was a maxim of female upbringing in middle-class Vienna?

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Correct: The answer is b. Zweig believed that sexuality was acknowledged in a much more honest way among the working class than it was among the middle class.
Incorrect: The answer is b. Zweig believed that sexuality was acknowledged in a much more honest way among the working class than it was among the middle class.
4. With which of these groups did Zweig associate the sexual hypocrisy and prudishness of his day?

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Correct: The answer is b. Zweig linked the visibility of prostitution to the sexual repression of the period.
Incorrect: The answer is b. Zweig linked the visibility of prostitution to the sexual repression of the period.
5. According to Zweig, which of these was much more visible in late-nineteenth-century cities than in the cities of the 1930s and 1940s?