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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 did following the proper rules of the calling system indicate, according to the author in Chapter 1, "Calling Cards and Money"?
(a) Good morals.
(b) Intelligence.
(c) Good breeding.
(d) Good fortune.

2. What category does the author assert did not exist in the nineteenth century?
(a) Youth.
(b) Retired.
(c) Homosexual.
(d) Interracial.

3. According to the author in the Introduction, “love was not so much the province of” what?
(a) Religion.
(b) Justice.
(c) Economy.
(d) Convention.

4. According to the author in Chapter 1, "Calling Cards and Money,” dating became a system of what?
(a) Cultural growth.
(b) Economic exchange.
(c) Sexism.
(d) Selfishness.

5. 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) Cutting in on the dance floor.
(c) Asking for a second date.
(d) Kissing in public.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. The first daters complained about what, according to the author in Chapter 3, "The Worth of a Date”?

3. 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?

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

5. According to the author, the norms of American parents were reflective of what?

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