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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Epilogue.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What word from the book means having qualities traditionally ascribed to women?
(a) Etiquette.
(b) Feminine.
(c) Masculine.
(d) Paradox.

2. What grew and produced tension between generations in Chapter 4, "Sex Control"?
(a) Religious attitudes.
(b) Technological advances.
(c) Marriage laws.
(d) New sexual conventions.

3. The sexual revolution was about the rights of who to express love sexually, according to the author in the Epilogue?
(a) Heterosexuals.
(b) Homosexuals.
(c) The under-aged.
(d) The unmarried.

4. According to the author in Chapter 1, "Calling Cards and Money,” the word date entered the vocabulary of the middle class initially through what group of people?
(a) Sociologists.
(b) Fraternity boys.
(c) Sorority girls.
(d) Nuns.

5. The sexual revolution began in what decade?
(a) The 1960s.
(b) The 1940s.
(c) The 1930s.
(d) The 1970s.

Short Answer Questions

1. Premarital sex was not “conventional” until what decade, according to the author?

2. Beth Bailey asserts that courtship has been replaced by what in the book’s Epilogue?

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

4. According to the author in Chapter 4, "Sex Control,” dating promoted what?

5. According to the author in Chapter 3, "The Worth of a Date,” a date meant what?

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