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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. The presence of what greatly accelerated the system of dating, according to the author in Chapter 1, "Calling Cards and Money"?
(a) The telephone.
(b) The bicycle.
(c) The automobile.
(d) Electricity.

2. What did following the proper rules of the calling system indicate, according to the author in Chapter 1, "Calling Cards and Money"?
(a) Good morals.
(b) Intelligence.
(c) Good fortune.
(d) Good breeding.

3. 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) Urban-industrial America.
(d) Teenage pregnancy.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. According to the author in Chapter 1, "Calling Cards and Money,” many “factory girls” did not have what?

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

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

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

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