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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5, “The Etiquette of Masculinity and Femininity”.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who does the author say gentlemen callers left their cards with in Chapter 1, "Calling Cards and Money"?
(a) The mother.
(b) The maid.
(c) The brother.
(d) The father.

2. When was Sigmund Freud born?
(a) 1811.
(b) 1904.
(c) 1856.
(d) 1926.

3. What word from the book refers to conventional requirements as to social behavior?
(a) Feminine.
(b) Masculine.
(c) Etiquette.
(d) Paradox.

4. What word in the book means a statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory or absurd but in reality expresses a possible truth?
(a) Feminine.
(b) Etiquette.
(c) Masculine.
(d) Paradox.

5. According to the author in Chapter 5, "The Etiquette of Masculinity and Femininity,” women were encouraged to make an effort to become more feminine, partly to do what?
(a) Rescue men.
(b) Honor the church.
(c) Be more traditional.
(d) Honor their parents.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. 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?

3. In what decade did the Great Depression begin?

4. The author describes a scenario in Chapter 1, "Calling Cards and Money" in which a man calls on a city girl and when he arrives she is wearing what?

5. Beth Bailey notes that contemporary women are sexually objectified based upon what in Chapter 3, "The Worth of a Date"?

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