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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. Beth Bailey notes that what word is rarely discussed in the book in her Introduction?
(a) Divorce.
(b) Love.
(c) Sex.
(d) Commitment.

2. What are shown in the book to be highly variable and responsive to changes in social attitudes and economic developments?
(a) Government regulations.
(b) Religious attitudes.
(c) Cultural norms.
(d) Middle class incomes.

3. 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) Retiring.
(b) Having children.
(c) Marriage.
(d) Graduation.

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

5. 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?
(a) Nuns.
(b) Sociologists.
(c) Fraternity boys.
(d) Sorority girls.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the author in Chapter 5, "The Etiquette of Masculinity and Femininity,” women were encouraged to make an effort to become more feminine, partly to do what?

2. What term referred to caresses above the neck, according to the author in Chapter 4, "Sex Control"?

3. What is the fourth of the six themes of courtship described by the author in Chapter 6, "Scientific Truth ... and Love"?

4. What became the basis of the dating system, according to the author in Chapter 1, "Calling Cards and Money"?

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?

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