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

2. 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"?
(a) 1910.
(b) 1937.
(c) 1952.
(d) 1928.

3. 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"?
(a) A dowry.
(b) Sexual favors.
(c) Money.
(d) Allegiance.

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

5. 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 beauty.
(c) Men’s money.
(d) Women’s intelligence.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. According to the author in the Introduction, courtship was transformed as youth were freed from what?

3. According to the author in the Introduction, studying the practices of the majority can have a positive impact on our understanding of what?

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

5. The rules of dating were rooted in the idea of man as what, according to the author in the Introduction?

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