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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 is the process of what?
(a) Convincing.
(b) Economic exchange.
(c) Wooing.
(d) Loving.

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

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

4. In what decade did the Great Depression begin?
(a) 1930s.
(b) 1900s.
(c) 1950s.
(d) 1910s.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Courtship was initially a private act conducted where?

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

3. Before the mid-1920s, what system was used to link women and men?

4. Beth Bailey notes that what word is rarely discussed in the book in her Introduction?

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

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