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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 term referred to a long-term partner in the dating system?
(a) Ball and chain.
(b) Lover.
(c) Steady.
(d) Connection.

2. What did not differ in the first four decades of the twentieth century from their nineteenth century counterparts?
(a) Life expectancy.
(b) The sexual behaviors of youth.
(c) The average age of marriage.
(d) Infant mortality.

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

4. From Front Porch to Back Seat concerns America’s system of courtship principally between what years?
(a) 1920-1965.
(b) 1860-1915.
(c) 1945-1980.
(d) 1960-2000.

5. Marriage education courses began at the University of North Carolina in what year?
(a) 1898.
(b) 1944.
(c) 1912.
(d) 1927.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the author in the Introduction, courtship includes many conditions, intentions, and _____________.

2. According to the author in Chapter 2, "The Economy of Dating,” often competitive success in the dating system was demonstrated where?

3. By what year did the word “date” enter the vocabulary of the middle class, according to the author in Chapter 1, "Calling Cards and Money"?

4. According to the author in the Introduction, the new systems of courtship were tied to an understanding of what?

5. What word from the book refers to conventional requirements as to social behavior?

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