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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5, “The Etiquette of Masculinity and Femininity”.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What courtship events does the author describe in colleges in Chapter 3, "The Worth of a Date”?
(a) Dances.
(b) Exams.
(c) Graduations.
(d) Football games.

2. According to the author in Chapter 3, "The Worth of a Date,” a date meant what?
(a) The girl pays.
(b) The father chaperones.
(c) The boy drives.
(d) The boy pays for the girl.

3. Premarital sex was not “conventional” until what decade, according to the author?
(a) 1970s.
(b) 1940s.
(c) 1980s.
(d) 1960s.

4. What are shown in the book to be highly variable and responsive to changes in social attitudes and economic developments?
(a) Middle class incomes.
(b) Government regulations.
(c) Religious attitudes.
(d) Cultural norms.

5. 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 Industrial Revolution.
(c) The Digital Revolution.
(d) The Great Awakening.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. According to the author in Chapter 5, "The Etiquette of Masculinity and Femininity,” many came to believe for biological reasons that being what was natural to humanity?

3. According to the author in Chapter 4, "Sex Control,” twentieth century discourse was based on youth and what?

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

5. Where was Beth Bailey teaching when the book was written?

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