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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. The new practice of going steady entirely destroyed what system according to the author in Chapter 2, "The Economy of Dating”?
(a) The dating-rating system.
(b) The marriage system.
(c) The call system.
(d) The courting system.

2. According to the author in the Introduction, convention does not determine action but it structures what?
(a) Experience.
(b) Expectations.
(c) Extremes.
(d) Exceptions.

3. What became the basis of the dating system, according to the author in Chapter 1, "Calling Cards and Money"?
(a) Men’s attractiveness.
(b) Women’s beauty.
(c) Men’s money.
(d) Women’s intelligence.

4. By 1959, nearly half of all women married before what age, according to the author in Chapter 2, "The Economy of Dating”?
(a) 30.
(b) 22.
(c) 19.
(d) 27.

5. What does “STD” stand for?
(a) Sociological transmission dysfunction.
(b) Sexually transmitted disease.
(c) Sexual tension and distraction.
(d) Systemic Thoratic disease.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the author in Chapter 2, "The Economy of Dating,” often competitive success in the dating system was demonstrated where?

2. What consists of the processes in the mind that occur automatically and are not available to introspection?

3. Ideals of beauty were often set by whom, according to the author in Chapter 3, "The Worth of a Date”?

4. Who does the author say gentlemen callers left their cards with in Chapter 1, "Calling Cards and Money"?

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

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