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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. According to the author in the Introduction, courtship was transformed as youth were freed from what?
(a) Adult responsibilities and decisions.
(b) Curfews and chores.
(c) Rules and discipline.
(d) Expectations and supervision.

2. 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) Modernization.
(c) Tradition.
(d) War.

3. An incredibly high rate of what appeared after World War II, according to the author in Chapter 2, "The Economy of Dating”?
(a) Teenage pregnancy.
(b) Separations.
(c) Divorces.
(d) Marriages.

4. The controversy that Beth Bailey encountered when she appeared on television in college was really about what?
(a) Homosexuality.
(b) The Roman Catholic Church.
(c) Economic values.
(d) The transformation of dating.

5. The rise of national youth culture meant that what divisions mattered more than the divisions between boy and girl?
(a) Religious divisions.
(b) Young and old.
(c) Financial divisions.
(d) Republican and Democrat.

Short Answer Questions

1. Courtship was initially a private act conducted where?

2. According to the author in Chapter 3, "The Worth of a Date,” America's culture of consumption sees paired acts as opportunities for what?

3. By 1959, nearly half of all women married before what age, according to the author in Chapter 2, "The Economy of Dating”?

4. According to the author in Chapter 1, "Calling Cards and Money,” the centrality of what in dating had important implications?

5. When was Sigmund Freud born?

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