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

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

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

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

5. According to the author in Chapter 1, "Calling Cards and Money,” the word date entered the vocabulary of the middle class initially through what group of people?
(a) Sociologists.
(b) Fraternity boys.
(c) Nuns.
(d) Sorority girls.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does the author say gentlemen callers left their cards with in Chapter 1, "Calling Cards and Money"?

2. 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?

3. According to the author in the Introduction, the new systems of courtship were tied to an understanding of what?

4. According to the author in the Introduction, courtship was transformed as youth were freed from what?

5. What became more fragile as the fifties and sixties progressed, according to the author?

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