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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. What term referred to a long-term partner in the dating system?
(a) Steady.
(b) Ball and chain.
(c) Lover.
(d) Connection.

2. The first daters complained about what, according to the author in Chapter 3, "The Worth of a Date”?
(a) Parental supervision.
(b) The investment of time.
(c) Dating the wrong people.
(d) The cost of courtship.

3. 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) Fraternity boys.
(b) Sociologists.
(c) Sorority girls.
(d) Nuns.

4. 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?
(a) Consuming.
(b) Singing.
(c) Playing sports.
(d) Dancing.

5. What became more fragile as the fifties and sixties progressed, according to the author?
(a) Gender identities.
(b) Law and order.
(c) The middle class.
(d) International relations.

Short Answer Questions

1. What word from Chapter 3, "The Worth of a Date” means to make larger?

2. Who were blamed for the breakdown in gender identity, according to the author in Chapter 5, "The Etiquette of Masculinity and Femininity”?

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

4. What consists of the processes in the mind that occur automatically and are not available to introspection?

5. Mid-twentieth century masculinity and femininity were defined in opposition to one another and are what today?

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