From Front Porch to Back Seat: Courtship in Twentieth-century America Quiz | Eight Week Quiz F

Beth L. Bailey
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From Front Porch to Back Seat: Courtship in Twentieth-century America Quiz | Eight Week Quiz F

Beth L. Bailey
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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6, “Scientific Truth ... and Love”.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. According to the author in the Introduction, “love was not so much the province of” what?
(a) Justice.
(b) Convention.
(c) Economy.
(d) Religion.

4. What word from the book refers to conventional requirements as to social behavior?
(a) Etiquette.
(b) Paradox.
(c) Feminine.
(d) Masculine.

5. What consists of the processes in the mind that occur automatically and are not available to introspection?
(a) The unconscious mind.
(b) The biological mind.
(c) The natural mind.
(d) The psychic mind.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year was Beth Bailey a senior in college?

2. Parents responded to youth’s sexual freedom by limiting their children’s privacy and setting up what, according to the author in Chapter 4, "Sex Control”?

3. According to the author, dating was about competition and what in the 1930s?

4. 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?

5. According to the author in Chapter 2, "The Economy of Dating,” after World War II, what became considered a rude behavior?

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