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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, studying the practices of the majority can have a positive impact on our understanding of what?
(a) Social mores as a whole.
(b) Gender identity.
(c) The religious whole.
(d) The minority.

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 Great Awakening.
(c) The Industrial Revolution.
(d) The Agrarian Era.

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

4. The controversy that Beth Bailey encountered when she appeared on television in college was really about what?
(a) Economic values.
(b) The Roman Catholic Church.
(c) The transformation of dating.
(d) Homosexuality.

5. According to the author in Chapter 1, "Calling Cards and Money,” dating became a system of what?
(a) Economic exchange.
(b) Sexism.
(c) Cultural growth.
(d) Selfishness.

Short Answer Questions

1. What became more fragile as the fifties and sixties progressed, according to the author?

2. 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"?

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

4. According to the author in Chapter 1, "Calling Cards and Money,” the centrality of what in dating had important implications?

5. In the book’s Introduction, Beth Bailey argues that the results of the sexual revolution have not been uniformly what?

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