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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. The author states that by what decade did Americans begin to think dating was universal though it was only three decades old?
(a) The 1970s.
(b) The 1920s.
(c) The 1890s.
(d) The 1950s.

2. The first daters complained about what, according to the author in Chapter 3, "The Worth of a Date”?
(a) The cost of courtship.
(b) Parental supervision.
(c) The investment of time.
(d) Dating the wrong people.

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

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

5. According to the author in Chapter 1, "Calling Cards and Money,” dating was a response of lower classes to the pressures of what?
(a) Religious standards.
(b) Urban-industrial America.
(c) Rural boredom.
(d) Teenage pregnancy.

Short Answer Questions

1. The desire for what buttressed the practice of “going steady,” according to the author in Chapter 2, "The Economy of Dating”?

2. What does “STD” stand for?

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

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

5. According to the author in Chapter 2, "The Economy of Dating,” after World War II dating was still a way to demonstrate what?

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