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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to the author in Chapter 2, "The Economy of Dating,” the transition to dating appeared as an accommodation to what?
(a) Religion.
(b) Modernity.
(c) Music.
(d) Politics.

2. According to the author in Chapter 1, "Calling Cards and Money,” dating was a response of lower classes to the pressures of what?
(a) Religious standards.
(b) Teenage pregnancy.
(c) Urban-industrial America.
(d) Rural boredom.

3. The desire for what buttressed the practice of “going steady,” according to the author in Chapter 2, "The Economy of Dating”?
(a) Security.
(b) Friendship.
(c) Freedom.
(d) Companionship.

4. By what year did the word “date” enter the vocabulary of the middle class, according to the author in Chapter 1, "Calling Cards and Money"?
(a) 1910.
(b) 1952.
(c) 1937.
(d) 1928.

5. According to the author in Chapter 1, "Calling Cards and Money,” many “factory girls” did not have what?
(a) Siblings.
(b) A strict upbringing.
(c) Mothers.
(d) Room to receive calls.

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

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

8. Beth Bailey asserts that contemporary men are objectified as what in Chapter 3, "The Worth of a Date"?
(a) Taxi drivers.
(b) Human wallets.
(c) Work horses.
(d) Repairmen.

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

10. According to the author in Chapter 2, "The Economy of Dating,” dating satisfied a need in a world where few what got married?
(a) Relatives.
(b) Neighbors.
(c) Friends.
(d) Acquaintances.

11. What control was reduced with the advent of the dating system, according to the author in Chapter 1, "Calling Cards and Money"?
(a) Parental control.
(b) Self control.
(c) Religious control.
(d) Moral control.

12. 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 petting system.
(c) The call system.
(d) The dating system.

13. The presence of what greatly accelerated the system of dating, according to the author in Chapter 1, "Calling Cards and Money"?
(a) The telephone.
(b) The automobile.
(c) Electricity.
(d) The bicycle.

14. Bailey notes that dating experience was only presented as a national what in the Introduction?
(a) Pastime.
(b) Sport.
(c) Institution.
(d) Phenomenon.

15. What became a method of entering society and of taking a couple's place in the social and economic life of the United States according to the author in Chapter 3, "The Worth of a Date”?
(a) Having children.
(b) Marriage.
(c) Retiring.
(d) Graduation.

Short Answer Questions

1. By 1959, nearly half of all women married before what age, according to the author in Chapter 2, "The Economy of Dating”?

2. In what decade did the Great Depression begin?

3. Before the mid-1920s, what system was used to link women and men?

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

5. When she appeared on television during her senior year in college, Beth Bailey stated that love was more than what?

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