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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. Ideals of beauty were often set by whom, according to the author in Chapter 3, "The Worth of a Date”?
(a) Returning veterans.
(b) Sports heroes.
(c) Political office holders.
(d) Movie stars.

2. According to the author in the Introduction, the new systems of courtship were tied to an understanding of what?
(a) Youth culture.
(b) Science.
(c) Economics.
(d) Politics.

3. The author states that love and what are intertwined in the Introduction?
(a) Desire.
(b) Marriage.
(c) Friendship.
(d) Justice.

4. Going steady threatened parents who believed in what, according to the author in Chapter 2, "The Economy of Dating”?
(a) Marrying early.
(b) Not marrying out of state.
(c) Marrying inside one’s religion.
(d) Waiting to get married.

5. The controversy that Beth Bailey encountered when she appeared on television in college was really about what?
(a) Economic values.
(b) Homosexuality.
(c) The transformation of dating.
(d) The Roman Catholic Church.

Short Answer Questions

1. The system of dating started in what community in the 1920s and quickly spread, according to the author in Chapter 2, "The Economy of Dating”?

2. What word from Chapter 3, "The Worth of a Date” means to make larger?

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

4. According to the author in Chapter 2, "The Economy of Dating,” the process of going steady factored out what?

5. What are shown in the book to be highly variable and responsive to changes in social attitudes and economic developments?

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