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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6, “Scientific Truth ... and Love”.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What became threatened as people began to realize that gender roles were, at least partly, constructed and fluctuated between generations?
(a) Moral identity.
(b) Political identity.
(c) Financial identity.
(d) Gender identity.

3. What consists of legends, music, oral history, proverbs, jokes, popular beliefs, fairy tales, stories, tall tales, and customs that are the traditions of a culture, subculture, or group?
(a) Spiritual laws.
(b) Folk wisdom.
(c) Social norms.
(d) Common decency.

4. The desire for what buttressed the practice of “going steady,” according to the author in Chapter 2, "The Economy of Dating”?
(a) Freedom.
(b) Friendship.
(c) Companionship.
(d) Security.

5. The presence of what greatly accelerated the system of dating, according to the author in Chapter 1, "Calling Cards and Money"?
(a) The telephone.
(b) Electricity.
(c) The bicycle.
(d) The automobile.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. What does Beth Bailey look to rather than conventions?

3. According to the author in Chapter 1, "Calling Cards and Money,” many “factory girls” did not have what?

4. According to the author in the Introduction, the new system of courtship prized competition among potential mates and promoted what?

5. The system of dating and sex made who the controllers of sex as they had to enforce sexual limits, according to the author in Chapter 4, "Sex Control”?

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