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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 word from Chapter 4, "Sex Control” means refraining from sexual intercourse that is regarded as contrary to morality or religion?
(a) Contagious.
(b) Corporate.
(c) Chaste.
(d) Conducive.

2. What “special dates” incurred great cost, according to the author in Chapter 3, "The Worth of a Date”?
(a) Fairs.
(b) Square dances.
(c) Proms.
(d) Graduations.

3. According to the author in Chapter 2, "The Economy of Dating,” the process of going steady factored out what?
(a) Wealth.
(b) Traditional values.
(c) Competition.
(d) Politics.

4. In what decade did the Great Depression begin?
(a) 1950s.
(b) 1930s.
(c) 1910s.
(d) 1900s.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. By 1959, nearly half of all women married before what age, according to the author in Chapter 2, "The Economy of Dating”?

2. What does Beth Bailey look to rather than conventions?

3. What constantly portrayed the other sex as commodities, according to the author in Chapter 3, "The Worth of a Date”?

4. What refers to the unlawful compelling of a person through physical force or duress to have sexual intercourse?

5. Pressures arose in the dating system for women to “act like” what, according to the author in Chapter 4, "Sex Control”?

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