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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. What courtship events does the author describe in colleges in Chapter 3, "The Worth of a Date”?
(a) Football games.
(b) Graduations.
(c) Dances.
(d) Exams.

2. According to the author in Chapter 6, "Scientific Truth ... and Love" love and marriage were to be regulated by whom?
(a) Men.
(b) Elites.
(c) Peasants.
(d) Women.

3. According to the author in the Introduction, courtship is the process of what?
(a) Convincing.
(b) Loving.
(c) Economic exchange.
(d) Wooing.

4. 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”?
(a) Having children.
(b) Retiring.
(c) Marriage.
(d) Graduation.

5. 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) Modernization.
(b) Science.
(c) War.
(d) Tradition.

Short Answer Questions

1. What became more fragile as the fifties and sixties progressed, according to the author?

2. According to the author in Chapter 4, "Sex Control,” parents and authorities held the same line against sex that their parents had and this attitude remained unchanged for how long?

3. According to the author in the Introduction, studying the practices of the majority can have a positive impact on our understanding of what?

4. According to the author in Chapter 3, "The Worth of a Date,” simply having a date indicated what?

5. The first daters complained about what, according to the author in Chapter 3, "The Worth of a Date”?

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