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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. What was Beth Bailey defending when she appeared on television during her senior year of college?
(a) Homosexuality.
(b) Polygamy.
(c) Coed dorms.
(d) Communal living.

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

3. Before the mid-1920s, what system was used to link women and men?
(a) Praying.
(b) Yelling.
(c) Arranged marriage.
(d) Calling.

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

5. In what year was Beth Bailey a senior in college?
(a) 1972.
(b) 1978.
(c) 1965.
(d) 1954.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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"?

2. What did following the proper rules of the calling system indicate, according to the author in Chapter 1, "Calling Cards and Money"?

3. According to the author in the Introduction, “love was not so much the province of” what?

4. According to the author in Chapter 1, "Calling Cards and Money,” dating was a response of lower classes to the pressures of what?

5. Who acquired the most power within the dating system, according to the author in Chapter 1, "Calling Cards and Money"?

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