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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) Steady.
(b) Lover.
(c) Connection.
(d) Ball and chain.

2. What does Beth Bailey look to rather than conventions?
(a) Dreams.
(b) Experience.
(c) Philosophy.
(d) Soap operas.

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

4. What became a method of entering society and of taking a couple's place in the social and economic life of the United States according to the author in Chapter 3, "The Worth of a Date”?
(a) Retiring.
(b) Having children.
(c) Marriage.
(d) Graduation.

5. According to the author in Chapter 3, "The Worth of a Date,” in the 1950s and 1960s, what became highly prized?
(a) The African American girl.
(b) The small-footed girl.
(c) The large-breasted girl.
(d) The Native American girl.

Short Answer Questions

1. Beth Bailey notes that contemporary women are sexually objectified based upon what in Chapter 3, "The Worth of a Date"?

2. What system of courtship involved suitors getting to know family members, associating with communities, and linking families together?

3. An incredibly high rate of what appeared after World War II, according to the author in Chapter 2, "The Economy of Dating”?

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

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

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