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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. In the calling system, who took the initiative according to the author in Chapter 1, "Calling Cards and Money"?
(a) Friends.
(b) Men.
(c) Parents.
(d) Women.

2. What system of courtship involved suitors getting to know family members, associating with communities, and linking families together?
(a) The dating system.
(b) The arranged marriage system.
(c) The petting system.
(d) The call system.

3. According to the author in Chapter 1, "Calling Cards and Money,” many “factory girls” did not have what?
(a) Siblings.
(b) Room to receive calls.
(c) Mothers.
(d) A strict upbringing.

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

5. Who does the author say gentlemen callers left their cards with in Chapter 1, "Calling Cards and Money"?
(a) The father.
(b) The mother.
(c) The brother.
(d) The maid.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the author in Chapter 1, "Calling Cards and Money,” women who took the initiative in the dating system were thought to be what?

2. The author describes a scenario in Chapter 1, "Calling Cards and Money" in which a man calls on a city girl and when he arrives she is wearing what?

3. What does “STD” stand for?

4. Bailey notes that dating experience was only presented as a national what in the Introduction?

5. 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?

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