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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. By 1959, nearly half of all women married before what age, according to the author in Chapter 2, "The Economy of Dating”?
(a) 19.
(b) 22.
(c) 30.
(d) 27.

3. Going steady stopped being a guaranteed path to what, according to the author in Chapter 2, "The Economy of Dating”?
(a) Marriage.
(b) Enlightenment.
(c) Having children.
(d) Financial success.

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

5. 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.

6. Who does the author say gentlemen callers left their cards with in Chapter 1, "Calling Cards and Money"?
(a) The father.
(b) The brother.
(c) The mother.
(d) The maid.

7. 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?
(a) A coat.
(b) High heels.
(c) A hat.
(d) Gold jewelry.

8. According to the author in Chapter 1, "Calling Cards and Money,” dating was a response of lower classes to the pressures of what?
(a) Teenage pregnancy.
(b) Rural boredom.
(c) Urban-industrial America.
(d) Religious standards.

9. What does Beth Bailey look to rather than conventions?
(a) Dreams.
(b) Experience.
(c) Soap operas.
(d) Philosophy.

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

11. How many American men disappeared during World War II, according to the author in Chapter 2, "The Economy of Dating”?
(a) 3 million.
(b) 9 million.
(c) 16 million.
(d) 5 million.

12. According to the author, dating was about competition and what in the 1930s?
(a) Truthfulness.
(b) Philosophy.
(c) Religion.
(d) Consumption.

13. In the calling system, who took the initiative according to the author in Chapter 1, "Calling Cards and Money"?
(a) Friends.
(b) Parents.
(c) Men.
(d) Women.

14. The generational battle surrounding going steady boiled down to what, according to the author in Chapter 2, "The Economy of Dating”?
(a) Politics.
(b) Money.
(c) Sex.
(d) Religion.

15. When she appeared on television during her senior year in college, Beth Bailey stated that love was more than what?
(a) Marriage and family.
(b) Mystery and romance.
(c) Hugs and kisses.
(d) A ring and a ceremony.

Short Answer Questions

1. Beth Bailey notes that contemporary women are sexually objectified based upon what in Chapter 3, "The Worth of a Date"?

2. The rules of dating were rooted in the idea of man as what, according to the author in the Introduction?

3. Beth Bailey asserts that contemporary men are objectified as what in Chapter 3, "The Worth of a Date"?

4. According to the author in Chapter 2, "The Economy of Dating,” dating satisfied a need in a world where few what got married?

5. What are shown in the book to be highly variable and responsive to changes in social attitudes and economic developments?

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