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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Epilogue.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What became acceptable during the period of the sexual revolution?
(a) Marriage.
(b) Drug use.
(c) Heterosexuality.
(d) Living together.

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

3. The system of dating started in what community in the 1920s and quickly spread, according to the author in Chapter 2, "The Economy of Dating”?
(a) The college community.
(b) The religious community.
(c) The business community.
(d) The bowling community.

4. The six themes of courtship described by the author in Chapter 6, "Scientific Truth ... and Love" all arose from sweeping social forces that came from what?
(a) Modernization.
(b) Evolution.
(c) The Industrial Revolution.
(d) The Civil Rights Movement.

5. According to the author in Chapter 4, "Sex Control,” parents tried to retain what of American womanhood?
(a) The “common decency.”
(b) The “divine concept.”
(c) The “moral integrity.”
(d) The “absolute purity.”

Short Answer Questions

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

2. The desire for what buttressed the practice of “going steady,” according to the author in Chapter 2, "The Economy of Dating”?

3. From Front Porch to Back Seat was published in what year?

4. By the late nineteenth century, a new and coherent social group started to drive American cultural life. This new middle class arose during what period?

5. What book by Ernest Burgess was one of the most influential sociology texts ever written?

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