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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. According to the author in the Introduction, courtship was transformed as youth were freed from what?
(a) Expectations and supervision.
(b) Rules and discipline.
(c) Curfews and chores.
(d) Adult responsibilities and decisions.

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

3. On what television show did Beth Bailey appear on when she was a senior in college?
(a) The Phil Donahue Show.
(b) The Geraldo Rivera Show.
(c) The Jerry Springer Show.
(d) The Ricki Lake Show.

4. What does Beth Bailey look to rather than conventions?
(a) Dreams.
(b) Philosophy.
(c) Experience.
(d) Soap operas.

5. According to the author in Chapter 1, "Calling Cards and Money,” the centrality of what in dating had important implications?
(a) Money.
(b) Automobiles.
(c) The telephone.
(d) Sex.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. According to the author in the Introduction, convention does not determine action but it structures what?

3. What system of courtship involved suitors getting to know family members, associating with communities, and linking families together?

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

5. The fact that men paid for dates was thought to imply that women owed them what, according to the author in Chapter 1, "Calling Cards and Money"?

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