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

2. After World War II, what became a common practice according to the author in Chapter 2, "The Economy of Dating”?
(a) Premarital sex.
(b) Staying single.
(c) Getting divorced.
(d) Going steady.

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

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) Marriage.
(b) Having children.
(c) Retiring.
(d) Graduation.

5. According to the author in the Introduction, courtship is the process of what?
(a) Loving.
(b) Convincing.
(c) Economic exchange.
(d) Wooing.

Short Answer Questions

1. The author describes a scenario in Chapter 1, "Calling Cards and Money" in which a man calls on a city girl and when he arrives she is wearing what?

2. When she appeared on television during her senior year in college, Beth Bailey stated that love was more than what?

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

4. According to the author in Chapter 3, "The Worth of a Date,” American dating emerged as what became central to courtship?

5. By what year did the word “date” enter the vocabulary of the middle class, according to the author in Chapter 1, "Calling Cards and Money"?

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