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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. What does Beth Bailey look to rather than conventions?
(a) Experience.
(b) Soap operas.
(c) Philosophy.
(d) Dreams.

2. The author states that love and what are intertwined in the Introduction?
(a) Friendship.
(b) Desire.
(c) Marriage.
(d) Justice.

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

4. In the book’s Introduction, Beth Bailey argues that the results of the sexual revolution have not been uniformly what?
(a) Negative.
(b) Positive.
(c) Radical.
(d) Political.

5. From Front Porch to Back Seat concerns America’s system of courtship principally between what years?
(a) 1920-1965.
(b) 1945-1980.
(c) 1860-1915.
(d) 1960-2000.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the author in Chapter 2, "The Economy of Dating,” the transition to dating appeared as an accommodation to what?

2. According to the author in the Introduction, convention does not determine action but it structures what?

3. What was Beth Bailey defending when she appeared on television during her senior year of college?

4. What control was reduced with the advent of the dating system, according to the author in Chapter 1, "Calling Cards and Money"?

5. According to the author in Chapter 2, "The Economy of Dating,” after returning from World War II, American college men saw their coed women as what?

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