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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who largely controlled the calling system, according to the author in Chapter 1, "Calling Cards and Money"?
(a) The woman.
(b) The man.
(c) The mayor.
(d) The priest.

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

3. What refers to a token indicating future marriage?
(a) Medal of honor.
(b) Letterman jacket.
(c) Dowry.
(d) Engagement ring.

4. According to the author in Chapter 3, "The Worth of a Date,” youth came to define themselves in terms of their what?
(a) Consumption.
(b) Intelligence.
(c) Physical strength.
(d) Musical taste.

5. According to the author in the Introduction, courtship is the process of what?
(a) Convincing.
(b) Economic exchange.
(c) Wooing.
(d) Loving.

6. What “special dates” incurred great cost, according to the author in Chapter 3, "The Worth of a Date”?
(a) Fairs.
(b) Proms.
(c) Square dances.
(d) Graduations.

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

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

9. According to the author in Chapter 2, "The Economy of Dating,” after World War II dating was still a way to demonstrate what?
(a) Wealth.
(b) Breeding.
(c) Popularity.
(d) Manners.

10. According to the author in the Introduction, courtship includes many conditions, intentions, and _____________.
(a) Luck.
(b) Fate.
(c) Actions.
(d) Wishes.

11. 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?
(a) The Great Awakening.
(b) The Digital Revolution.
(c) The Industrial Revolution.
(d) The Agrarian Era.

12. The new practice of going steady entirely destroyed what system according to the author in Chapter 2, "The Economy of Dating”?
(a) The call system.
(b) The courting system.
(c) The dating-rating system.
(d) The marriage system.

13. According to the author in Chapter 3, "The Worth of a Date,” simply having a date indicated what?
(a) Experience.
(b) Success.
(c) Friendship.
(d) Failure.

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

15. What control was reduced with the advent of the dating system, according to the author in Chapter 1, "Calling Cards and Money"?
(a) Moral control.
(b) Religious control.
(c) Self control.
(d) Parental control.

Short Answer Questions

1. Before the mid-1920s, what system was used to link women and men?

2. Where was Beth Bailey teaching when the book was written?

3. In what decade did the Great Depression begin?

4. The author states that love and what are intertwined in the Introduction?

5. According to the author in Chapter 3, "The Worth of a Date,” in the 1950s and 1960s, what became highly prized?

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