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

2. What was Beth Bailey defending when she appeared on television during her senior year of college?
(a) Coed dorms.
(b) Communal living.
(c) Polygamy.
(d) Homosexuality.

3. According to the author in Chapter 2, "The Economy of Dating,” after World War II, what became considered a rude behavior?
(a) Driving too fast.
(b) Kissing in public.
(c) Cutting in on the dance floor.
(d) Asking for a second date.

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

5. By what year did the word “date” enter the vocabulary of the middle class, according to the author in Chapter 1, "Calling Cards and Money"?
(a) 1952.
(b) 1928.
(c) 1937.
(d) 1910.

Short Answer Questions

1. Courtship was initially a private act conducted where?

2. What courtship events does the author describe in colleges in Chapter 3, "The Worth of a Date”?

3. When she appeared on television during her senior year in college, Beth Bailey stated that love was more than what?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How did marriage change in the 1950s and 1960s? How was marriage related to consumption?

3. What time period does From Front Porch to Back Seat focus on? What is the central focus of the book?

4. The transition to dating as a courtship ritual emerged to accommodate what, according to the author in Chapter 2, "The Economy of Dating"?

5. How did competition on the dance floor evolve after World War II?

6. When did the term “dating” first enter the American vocabulary? From whom did this term originate?

7. What physical asset became idealized during the 1950s and 1960s, according to the author in Chapter 3, "The Worth of a Date"?

8. 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"?

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

10. What demographic emerged in the late nineteenth century? What impact did this group have on the systems of courtship?

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