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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. From Front Porch to Back Seat concerns America’s system of courtship principally between what years?
(a) 1960-2000.
(b) 1860-1915.
(c) 1945-1980.
(d) 1920-1965.

2. By what year did the word “date” enter the vocabulary of the middle class, according to the author in Chapter 1, "Calling Cards and Money"?
(a) 1937.
(b) 1910.
(c) 1928.
(d) 1952.

3. Before the mid-1920s, what system was used to link women and men?
(a) Calling.
(b) Arranged marriage.
(c) Praying.
(d) Yelling.

4. The controversy that Beth Bailey encountered when she appeared on television in college was really about what?
(a) Economic values.
(b) The Roman Catholic Church.
(c) Homosexuality.
(d) The transformation of dating.

5. Courtship was initially a private act conducted where?
(a) In a public world.
(b) In church.
(c) In school.
(d) In private places.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the author in Chapter 3, "The Worth of a Date,” simply having a date indicated what?

2. What became the symbol of youth culture according to the author in Chapter 4, "Sex Control"?

3. According to the author in Chapter 3, "The Worth of a Date,” America's culture of consumption sees paired acts as opportunities for what?

4. Going steady threatened parents who believed in what, according to the author in Chapter 2, "The Economy of Dating”?

5. The average marriage age did what after World War II?

(see the answer key)

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