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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. According to the author in Chapter 1, "Calling Cards and Money,” dating became a system of what?
(a) Selfishness.
(b) Sexism.
(c) Cultural growth.
(d) Economic exchange.

2. What did following the proper rules of the calling system indicate, according to the author in Chapter 1, "Calling Cards and Money"?
(a) Good morals.
(b) Good fortune.
(c) Intelligence.
(d) Good breeding.

3. 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?
(a) The Agrarian Era.
(b) The Digital Revolution.
(c) The Great Awakening.
(d) The Industrial Revolution.

4. The desire for what buttressed the practice of “going steady,” according to the author in Chapter 2, "The Economy of Dating”?
(a) Companionship.
(b) Security.
(c) Freedom.
(d) Friendship.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the author, the norms of American parents were reflective of what?

2. Going steady stopped being a guaranteed path to what, according to the author in Chapter 2, "The Economy of Dating”?

3. According to the author in Chapter 3, "The Worth of a Date,” in the 1950s and 1960s, what became highly prized?

4. The rules of dating were rooted in the idea of man as what, according to the author in the Introduction?

5. The protocol for going steady was strict and often involved what, according to the author in Chapter 2, "The Economy of Dating”?

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