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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. 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”?
(a) The religious community.
(b) The business community.
(c) The college community.
(d) The bowling community.

2. According to the author in Chapter 2, "The Economy of Dating,” after returning from World War II, American college men saw their coed women as what?
(a) Wholesome and polite.
(b) Loving and humble.
(c) Rude and disconnected.
(d) Spoiled and selfish.

3. Ernest Burgess and his adherents were part of a large twentieth-century movement to centralize power in response to the unorganized forces of what?
(a) Science.
(b) Tradition.
(c) War.
(d) Modernization.

4. According to the author in Chapter 4, "Sex Control,” parents tried to retain what of American womanhood?
(a) The “absolute purity.”
(b) The “common decency.”
(c) The “moral integrity.”
(d) The “divine concept.”

5. According to the author in Chapter 3, "The Worth of a Date,” in the 1950s and 1960s, what became highly prized?
(a) The small-footed girl.
(b) The African American girl.
(c) The Native American girl.
(d) The large-breasted girl.

Short Answer Questions

1. What became a method of entering society and of taking a couple's place in the social and economic life of the United States according to the author in Chapter 3, "The Worth of a Date”?

2. According to the author in Chapter 4, "Sex Control,” women often responded to the system of dating and sex by trying to “seem” respectable but privately engaging in illicit sexual activity, resulting in the rumors about good girls in reality being what?

3. What word from the book means having qualities traditionally ascribed to women?

4. Premarital sex was not “conventional” until what decade, according to the author?

5. According to the author in the Introduction, convention does not determine action but it structures what?

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