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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4, “Sex Control”.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What word from Chapter 4, "Sex Control" means amorous caressing and kissing?
(a) Condoning.
(b) Fondling.
(c) Petting.
(d) Harassment.

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

3. According to the author in Chapter 3, "The Worth of a Date,” women and men were keen on assessing each other’s what?
(a) Reputational worth.
(b) Monetary wealth.
(c) Life experiences.
(d) Moral compass.

4. What did not differ in the first four decades of the twentieth century from their nineteenth century counterparts?
(a) The sexual behaviors of youth.
(b) Life expectancy.
(c) The average age of marriage.
(d) Infant mortality.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. According to the author in Chapter 2, "The Economy of Dating,” after World War II dating was still a way to demonstrate what?

3. According to the author in Chapter 4, "Sex Control,” those born between 1900 and when grew up with new understandings of sexuality?

4. According to the author, dating was about competition and what in the 1930s?

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

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