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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6, “Scientific Truth ... and Love”.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What magazine does the author assert created a hideaway for men in Chapter 5, "The Etiquette of Masculinity and Femininity”?
(a) Car and Driver.
(b) Sports Illustrated.
(c) Backpacker.
(d) Playboy.

2. Beth Bailey is relentless in her emphasis on how what affected the development of courtship throughout the twentieth century?
(a) School activities.
(b) Religious scripture.
(c) American media.
(d) Family values.

3. What became threatened as people began to realize that gender roles were, at least partly, constructed and fluctuated between generations?
(a) Financial identity.
(b) Political identity.
(c) Gender identity.
(d) Moral identity.

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

5. According to the author in Chapter 2, "The Economy of Dating,” individuals could start “going steady” at what age following World War II?
(a) 17.
(b) 14.
(c) 18.
(d) 12.

Short Answer Questions

1. What consists of legends, music, oral history, proverbs, jokes, popular beliefs, fairy tales, stories, tall tales, and customs that are the traditions of a culture, subculture, or group?

2. According to the author in Chapter 2, "The Economy of Dating,” after World War II dating was still a way to demonstrate what?

3. Beth Bailey notes that what word is rarely discussed in the book in her Introduction?

4. Where was Sigmund Freud born?

5. According to the author in Chapter 3, "The Worth of a Date,” American public culture since the 1920s reiterated that women should compete for men by doing what?

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