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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Bailey notes that dating experience was only presented as a national what in the Introduction?
(a) Pastime.
(b) Institution.
(c) Sport.
(d) Phenomenon.

2. The desire for what buttressed the practice of “going steady,” according to the author in Chapter 2, "The Economy of Dating”?
(a) Freedom.
(b) Companionship.
(c) Friendship.
(d) Security.

3. The author states that by what decade did Americans begin to think dating was universal though it was only three decades old?
(a) The 1920s.
(b) The 1970s.
(c) The 1950s.
(d) The 1890s.

4. Beth Bailey notes that contemporary women are sexually objectified based upon what in Chapter 3, "The Worth of a Date"?
(a) Their religion.
(b) Their appearance.
(c) Their wealth.
(d) Their intelligence.

5. The first daters complained about what, according to the author in Chapter 3, "The Worth of a Date”?
(a) The investment of time.
(b) Dating the wrong people.
(c) Parental supervision.
(d) The cost of courtship.

6. What does “STD” stand for?
(a) Sexually transmitted disease.
(b) Sociological transmission dysfunction.
(c) Systemic Thoratic disease.
(d) Sexual tension and distraction.

7. 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 early.
(c) Not marrying out of state.
(d) Marrying inside one’s religion.

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

9. According to the author in Chapter 3, "The Worth of a Date,” women and men were keen on assessing each other’s what?
(a) Monetary wealth.
(b) Reputational worth.
(c) Life experiences.
(d) Moral compass.

10. According to the author in Chapter 2, "The Economy of Dating,” many treated going steady as what?
(a) An overwhelming endeavor.
(b) Engagement.
(c) An excuse to have sex.
(d) Play-marriage.

11. What constantly portrayed the other sex as commodities, according to the author in Chapter 3, "The Worth of a Date”?
(a) The media.
(b) The church.
(c) Schools.
(d) The government.

12. According to the author in Chapter 2, "The Economy of Dating,” individuals could start “going steady” at what age following World War II?
(a) 17.
(b) 14.
(c) 12.
(d) 18.

13. According to the author in Chapter 2, "The Economy of Dating,” dating satisfied a need in a world where few what got married?
(a) Friends.
(b) Neighbors.
(c) Relatives.
(d) Acquaintances.

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

15. Beth Bailey asserts that contemporary men are objectified as what in Chapter 3, "The Worth of a Date"?
(a) Work horses.
(b) Repairmen.
(c) Taxi drivers.
(d) Human wallets.

Short Answer Questions

1. Ideals of beauty were often set by whom, according to the author in Chapter 3, "The Worth of a Date”?

2. The presence of what greatly accelerated the system of dating, according to the author in Chapter 1, "Calling Cards and Money"?

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

4. What did following the proper rules of the calling system indicate, according to the author in Chapter 1, "Calling Cards and Money"?

5. 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?

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