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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. Where was Beth Bailey teaching when the book was written?
(a) Harvard University.
(b) Rutgers University.
(c) Temple University.
(d) Yale University.

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

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

4. What system of courtship involved suitors getting to know family members, associating with communities, and linking families together?
(a) The petting system.
(b) The dating system.
(c) The call system.
(d) The arranged marriage system.

5. In what year was Beth Bailey a senior in college?
(a) 1954.
(b) 1972.
(c) 1978.
(d) 1965.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the author in the Introduction, convention does not determine action but it structures what?

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

3. The controversy that Beth Bailey encountered when she appeared on television in college was really about what?

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

5. In the calling system, who took the initiative according to the author in Chapter 1, "Calling Cards and Money"?

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