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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4, “Sex Control”.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What category does the author assert did not exist in the nineteenth century?
(a) Homosexual.
(b) Interracial.
(c) Retired.
(d) Youth.

2. According to the author in Chapter 3, "The Worth of a Date,” youth came to define themselves in terms of their what?
(a) Musical taste.
(b) Consumption.
(c) Physical strength.
(d) Intelligence.

3. Going steady threatened parents who believed in what, according to the author in Chapter 2, "The Economy of Dating”?
(a) Waiting to get married.
(b) Marrying inside one’s religion.
(c) Not marrying out of state.
(d) Marrying early.

4. In what year was Beth Bailey a senior in college?
(a) 1965.
(b) 1978.
(c) 1972.
(d) 1954.

5. According to the author in Chapter 1, "Calling Cards and Money,” dating was a response of lower classes to the pressures of what?
(a) Urban-industrial America.
(b) Religious standards.
(c) Rural boredom.
(d) Teenage pregnancy.

Short Answer Questions

1. The system of dating started in what community in the 1920s and quickly spread, according to the author in Chapter 2, "The Economy of Dating”?

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

3. On what television show did Beth Bailey appear on when she was a senior in college?

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

5. The desire for what buttressed the practice of “going steady,” according to the author in Chapter 2, "The Economy of Dating”?

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