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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. 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?
(a) A coat.
(b) A hat.
(c) Gold jewelry.
(d) High heels.

2. What word from Chapter 4, "Sex Control” means refraining from sexual intercourse that is regarded as contrary to morality or religion?
(a) Corporate.
(b) Contagious.
(c) Chaste.
(d) Conducive.

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

4. Before the mid-1920s, what system was used to link women and men?
(a) Praying.
(b) Calling.
(c) Yelling.
(d) Arranged marriage.

5. 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) Nuns.
(c) Sorority girls.
(d) Fraternity boys.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What became more important as more forms of “upkeep” appeared in contemporary society, according to the author in Chapter 3, "The Worth of a Date”?

3. The rise of national youth culture meant that what divisions mattered more than the divisions between boy and girl?

4. In what year was Beth Bailey a senior in college?

5. According to the author in Chapter 2, "The Economy of Dating,” the transition to dating appeared as an accommodation to what?

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