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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Epilogue.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What system of courtship involved suitors getting to know family members, associating with communities, and linking families together?
(a) The arranged marriage system.
(b) The call system.
(c) The dating system.
(d) The petting system.

2. What word from Chapter 4, "Sex Control” means to utilize, especially for profit?
(a) Control.
(b) Harvest.
(c) Exploit.
(d) Donate.

3. According to the author in Chapter 1, "Calling Cards and Money,” the centrality of what in dating had important implications?
(a) Sex.
(b) Automobiles.
(c) Money.
(d) The telephone.

4. Beth Bailey is relentless in her emphasis on how what affected the development of courtship throughout the twentieth century?
(a) Family values.
(b) School activities.
(c) American media.
(d) Religious scripture.

5. Where was Sigmund Freud born?
(a) Sweden.
(b) France.
(c) Austria.
(d) Poland.

Short Answer Questions

1. Ernest Burgess and his adherents were part of a large twentieth-century movement to centralize power in response to the unorganized forces of what?

2. What refers to the unlawful compelling of a person through physical force or duress to have sexual intercourse?

3. According to the author in Chapter 5, "The Etiquette of Masculinity and Femininity,” many came to believe for biological reasons that being what was natural to humanity?

4. Bailey proposes that metaphors of revolution replaced metaphors of what in the Epilogue?

5. What became more important as more forms of “upkeep” appeared in contemporary society, according to the author in Chapter 3, "The Worth of a Date”?

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