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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5, “The Etiquette of Masculinity and Femininity”.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What became more fragile as the fifties and sixties progressed, according to the author?
(a) Law and order.
(b) International relations.
(c) Gender identities.
(d) The middle class.

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

3. According to the author, what settings were often the trend-setters in courtship trends?
(a) Churches.
(b) Movie theaters.
(c) College campuses.
(d) Restaurants.

4. 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 Agrarian Era.
(b) The Digital Revolution.
(c) The Industrial Revolution.
(d) The Great Awakening.

5. According to the author in Chapter 1, "Calling Cards and Money,” women who took the initiative in the dating system were thought to be what?
(a) Passive.
(b) Aggressive.
(c) Masculine.
(d) Feminine.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what decade did the Great Depression begin?

2. According to the author in Chapter 5, "The Etiquette of Masculinity and Femininity,” many came to believe for biological reasons that being what was natural to humanity?

3. What magazine does the author assert created a hideaway for men in Chapter 5, "The Etiquette of Masculinity and Femininity”?

4. What word in the book means a statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory or absurd but in reality expresses a possible truth?

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

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