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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 became more fragile as the fifties and sixties progressed, according to the author?
(a) The middle class.
(b) Law and order.
(c) International relations.
(d) Gender identities.

2. Courtship was initially a private act conducted where?
(a) In school.
(b) In a public world.
(c) In church.
(d) In private places.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In what decade did the Great Depression begin?

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

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 became a system 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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