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

2. According to the author in the Introduction, convention does not determine action but it structures what?
(a) Extremes.
(b) Experience.
(c) Expectations.
(d) Exceptions.

3. According to the author in the Introduction, courtship is the process of what?
(a) Loving.
(b) Convincing.
(c) Economic exchange.
(d) Wooing.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. According to the author in the Introduction, “love was not so much the province of” what?

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

4. 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?

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

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