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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 the basis of the dating system, according to the author in Chapter 1, "Calling Cards and Money"?
(a) Men’s money.
(b) Women’s beauty.
(c) Men’s attractiveness.
(d) Women’s intelligence.

2. The author states that love and what are intertwined in the Introduction?
(a) Desire.
(b) Justice.
(c) Friendship.
(d) Marriage.

3. From Front Porch to Back Seat concerns America’s system of courtship principally between what years?
(a) 1920-1965.
(b) 1960-2000.
(c) 1860-1915.
(d) 1945-1980.

4. Who acquired the most power within the dating system, according to the author in Chapter 1, "Calling Cards and Money"?
(a) Women.
(b) Men.
(c) Parents.
(d) Friends.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. According to the author in Chapter 1, "Calling Cards and Money,” dating was a response of lower classes to the pressures of what?

3. According to the author in Chapter 1, "Calling Cards and Money,” dating became a system of what?

4. When she appeared on television during her senior year in college, Beth Bailey stated that love was more than what?

5. Bailey notes that dating experience was only presented as a national what in the Introduction?

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