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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 became the basis of the dating system, according to the author in Chapter 1, "Calling Cards and Money"?
(a) Men’s attractiveness.
(b) Women’s intelligence.
(c) Men’s money.
(d) Women’s beauty.

2. According to the author in Chapter 6, "Scientific Truth ... and Love" love and marriage were to be regulated by whom?
(a) Elites.
(b) Peasants.
(c) Men.
(d) Women.

3. Beth Bailey notes that what word is rarely discussed in the book in her Introduction?
(a) Sex.
(b) Divorce.
(c) Commitment.
(d) Love.

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

5. The presence of what greatly accelerated the system of dating, according to the author in Chapter 1, "Calling Cards and Money"?
(a) The bicycle.
(b) The automobile.
(c) The telephone.
(d) Electricity.

Short Answer Questions

1. What courtship events does the author describe in colleges in Chapter 3, "The Worth of a Date”?

2. According to the author in Chapter 2, "The Economy of Dating,” the process of going steady factored out what?

3. According to the author in Chapter 1, "Calling Cards and Money,” the word date entered the vocabulary of the middle class initially through what group of people?

4. The author states that by what decade did Americans begin to think dating was universal though it was only three decades old?

5. What were once safe and embedded in kinship relations, church, and community according to the author in Chapter 6, "Scientific Truth ... and Love"?

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