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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2, “The Economy of Dating”.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. After World War II, what became a common practice according to the author in Chapter 2, "The Economy of Dating”?
(a) Going steady.
(b) Getting divorced.
(c) Staying single.
(d) Premarital sex.

3. Who acquired the most power within the dating system, according to the author in Chapter 1, "Calling Cards and Money"?
(a) Parents.
(b) Friends.
(c) Men.
(d) Women.

4. The author states that by what decade did Americans begin to think dating was universal though it was only three decades old?
(a) The 1920s.
(b) The 1970s.
(c) The 1950s.
(d) The 1890s.

5. According to the author in the Introduction, courtship includes many conditions, intentions, and _____________.
(a) Actions.
(b) Fate.
(c) Wishes.
(d) Luck.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the author in the Introduction, courtship is the process of what?

2. The desire for what buttressed the practice of “going steady,” according to the author in Chapter 2, "The Economy of Dating”?

3. According to the author in Chapter 1, "Calling Cards and Money,” dating was a response of lower classes to the pressures of what?

4. According to the author in Chapter 1, "Calling Cards and Money,” the centrality of what in dating had important implications?

5. In what decade did the Great Depression begin?

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