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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to the author in Chapter 1, "Calling Cards and Money,” many “factory girls” did not have what?
(a) A strict upbringing.
(b) Mothers.
(c) Siblings.
(d) Room to receive calls.

2. What system of courtship involved suitors getting to know family members, associating with communities, and linking families together?
(a) The petting system.
(b) The call system.
(c) The arranged marriage system.
(d) The dating system.

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

4. According to the author in Chapter 2, "The Economy of Dating,” the process of going steady factored out what?
(a) Competition.
(b) Politics.
(c) Wealth.
(d) Traditional values.

5. According to the author in Chapter 3, "The Worth of a Date,” simply having a date indicated what?
(a) Failure.
(b) Success.
(c) Experience.
(d) Friendship.

6. Courtship was initially a private act conducted where?
(a) In school.
(b) In a public world.
(c) In church.
(d) In private places.

7. Who acquired the most power within the dating system, according to the author in Chapter 1, "Calling Cards and Money"?
(a) Women.
(b) Men.
(c) Friends.
(d) Parents.

8. According to the author in Chapter 2, "The Economy of Dating,” after returning from World War II, American college men saw their coed women as what?
(a) Loving and humble.
(b) Wholesome and polite.
(c) Rude and disconnected.
(d) Spoiled and selfish.

9. Going steady stopped being a guaranteed path to what, according to the author in Chapter 2, "The Economy of Dating”?
(a) Having children.
(b) Financial success.
(c) Enlightenment.
(d) Marriage.

10. What became a method of entering society and of taking a couple's place in the social and economic life of the United States according to the author in Chapter 3, "The Worth of a Date”?
(a) Graduation.
(b) Having children.
(c) Retiring.
(d) Marriage.

11. According to the author in Chapter 3, "The Worth of a Date,” America's culture of consumption sees paired acts as opportunities for what?
(a) Mutual gain.
(b) Disagreements.
(c) Lasting friendship.
(d) New experiences.

12. Who largely controlled the calling system, according to the author in Chapter 1, "Calling Cards and Money"?
(a) The man.
(b) The woman.
(c) The priest.
(d) The mayor.

13. According to the author in Chapter 3, "The Worth of a Date,” American dating emerged as what became central to courtship?
(a) Social connections.
(b) Looks.
(c) Money.
(d) Manners.

14. By the late nineteenth century, a new and coherent social group started to drive American cultural life. This new middle class arose during what period?
(a) The Agrarian Era.
(b) The Digital Revolution.
(c) The Industrial Revolution.
(d) The Great Awakening.

15. Beth Bailey notes that contemporary women are sexually objectified based upon what in Chapter 3, "The Worth of a Date"?
(a) Their religion.
(b) Their intelligence.
(c) Their appearance.
(d) Their wealth.

Short Answer Questions

1. The new practice of going steady entirely destroyed what system according to the author in Chapter 2, "The Economy of Dating”?

2. According to the author, dating was about competition and what in the 1930s?

3. According to the author in the Introduction, studying the practices of the majority can have a positive impact on our understanding of what?

4. The presence of what greatly accelerated the system of dating, according to the author in Chapter 1, "Calling Cards and Money"?

5. By 1959, nearly half of all women married before what age, according to the author in Chapter 2, "The Economy of Dating”?

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