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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 1, “Calling Cards and Money”.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who largely controlled the calling system, according to the author in Chapter 1, "Calling Cards and Money"?
(a) The mayor.
(b) The priest.
(c) The woman.
(d) The man.

2. By the late nineteenth century, a new and coherent social group started to drive American cultural life. This new middle class arose during what period?
(a) The Digital Revolution.
(b) The Industrial Revolution.
(c) The Great Awakening.
(d) The Agrarian Era.

3. In the book’s Introduction, Beth Bailey argues that the results of the sexual revolution have not been uniformly what?
(a) Positive.
(b) Political.
(c) Radical.
(d) Negative.

4. According to the author in Chapter 1, "Calling Cards and Money,” dating was a response of lower classes to the pressures of what?
(a) Rural boredom.
(b) Religious standards.
(c) Urban-industrial America.
(d) Teenage pregnancy.

5. What became the basis of the dating system, according to the author in Chapter 1, "Calling Cards and Money"?
(a) Women’s beauty.
(b) Men’s attractiveness.
(c) Women’s intelligence.
(d) Men’s money.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the calling system, who took the initiative according to the author in Chapter 1, "Calling Cards and Money"?

2. Who does the author say gentlemen callers left their cards with in Chapter 1, "Calling Cards and Money"?

3. From Front Porch to Back Seat concerns America’s system of courtship principally between what years?

4. Courtship was initially a private act conducted where?

5. The author states that love and what are intertwined in the Introduction?

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