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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Going steady threatened parents who believed in what, according to the author in Chapter 2, "The Economy of Dating”?
(a) Marrying early.
(b) Not marrying out of state.
(c) Marrying inside one’s religion.
(d) Waiting to get married.

2. According to the author in Chapter 2, "The Economy of Dating,” the most popular students went steady, while others tried to avoid being what?
(a) Square.
(b) Broke.
(c) Different.
(d) Noticed.

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

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

5. According to the author in Chapter 2, "The Economy of Dating,” after returning from World War II, American college men saw their coed women as what?
(a) Rude and disconnected.
(b) Loving and humble.
(c) Wholesome and polite.
(d) Spoiled and selfish.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the author in Chapter 1, "Calling Cards and Money,” dating became a system of what?

2. What constantly portrayed the other sex as commodities, according to the author in Chapter 3, "The Worth of a Date”?

3. According to the author in Chapter 3, "The Worth of a Date,” women and men were keen on assessing each other’s what?

4. What does Beth Bailey look to rather than conventions?

5. The author states that by what decade did Americans begin to think dating was universal though it was only three decades old?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did those in the upper classes view the dating culture of the lower classes, according to the author in Chapter 1, "Calling Cards and Money"?

2. How did the evolution of focus on female appearance impact consumption in America, according to the author in Chapter 3, "The Worth of a Date"?

3. How did the emergence of dating change the values of consumption, according to the author in the Introduction?

4. How did American men view their coeds on college campuses after returning from World War II?

5. What system of courtship dominated the American lifestyle prior to the mid-1920s? How did dating change this system?

6. What values were involved in the early system of dating? What was scorned within this early system?

7. How was marketing involved in the evolution of women’s idealized beauty in the 1950s and 1960s?

8. Who had the most power and control within the calling system of courtship? How is this role described?

9. What role did money have in American dating when it emerged? How was a date defined at this time, according to the author in Chapter 3, "The Worth of a Date"?

10. To what demographic does Beth Bailey align the system of dating in the Introduction?

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