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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3, “The Worth of a Date”.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What term referred to a long-term partner in the dating system?
(a) Connection.
(b) Ball and chain.
(c) Steady.
(d) Lover.

2. Beth Bailey is relentless in her emphasis on how what affected the development of courtship throughout the twentieth century?
(a) Family values.
(b) Religious scripture.
(c) American media.
(d) School activities.

3. The generational battle surrounding going steady boiled down to what, according to the author in Chapter 2, "The Economy of Dating”?
(a) Religion.
(b) Sex.
(c) Money.
(d) Politics.

4. According to the author in Chapter 2, "The Economy of Dating,” dating satisfied a need in a world where few women had what?
(a) Parlors.
(b) Free time.
(c) Money.
(d) Cars.

5. According to the author in Chapter 3, "The Worth of a Date,” American public culture since the 1920s reiterated that women should compete for men by doing what?
(a) Playing sports.
(b) Consuming.
(c) Singing.
(d) Dancing.

Short Answer Questions

1. The presence of what greatly accelerated the system of dating, according to the author in Chapter 1, "Calling Cards and Money"?

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

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

4. The fact that men paid for dates was thought to imply that women owed them what, according to the author in Chapter 1, "Calling Cards and Money"?

5. According to the author in the Introduction, courtship is the process of what?

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