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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 magazine does the author assert created a hideaway for men in Chapter 5, "The Etiquette of Masculinity and Femininity”?
(a) Backpacker.
(b) Car and Driver.
(c) Playboy.
(d) Sports Illustrated.

2. What did following the proper rules of the calling system indicate, according to the author in Chapter 1, "Calling Cards and Money"?
(a) Good fortune.
(b) Good morals.
(c) Good breeding.
(d) Intelligence.

3. 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?
(a) Female.
(b) Heterosexual.
(c) Male.
(d) Homosexual.

4. What word from Chapter 4, "Sex Control" means to become aware of, know, or identify by means of the senses?
(a) Abolish.
(b) Perceive.
(c) Ridicule.
(d) Trance.

5. Going steady threatened parents who believed in what, according to the author in Chapter 2, "The Economy of Dating”?
(a) Waiting to get married.
(b) Marrying inside one’s religion.
(c) Not marrying out of state.
(d) Marrying early.

Short Answer Questions

1. The power of what declined as women entered the workforce according to the author in Chapter 4, "Sex Control"?

2. What word from Chapter 4, "Sex Control” means refraining from sexual intercourse that is regarded as contrary to morality or religion?

3. The controversy that Beth Bailey encountered when she appeared on television in college was really about what?

4. Beth Bailey is relentless in her emphasis on how what affected the development of courtship throughout the twentieth century?

5. According to the author in Chapter 3, "The Worth of a Date,” American public culture since the 1920s reiterated that women should compete for men by doing what?

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