Beth L. Bailey, Dating

Dating

Beth L. Bailey 

READING COMPREHENSION QUIZ

Take the quiz below to check your comprehension of the reading selection:

Question 5.21

What article of clothing signaled to the male caller that the girl he was visiting wanted to go out?

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B.
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D.
Correct.
Incorrect. The answer is C.

Question 5.22

According to Bailey, how did “virtually everyone” portray the system that dating replaced?

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B.
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Correct.
Incorrect. The answer is D.

Question 5.23

When did the word date enter the vocabulary of middle-class Americans?

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B.
C.
D.
Correct.
Incorrect. The answer is B.

Question 5.24

According to Bailey, which factors prevented many women from receiving callers during the early twentieth century?

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B.
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Correct.
Incorrect. The answer is D.

Question 5.25

During what time period did dating, according to Bailey, become a universal custom in America?

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B.
C.
D.
Correct.
Incorrect. The answer is A.

READING SUMMARY

Question 5.26

In a sentence or two, summarize the main idea of Bailey’s “Dating.” Be sure to put the summary in your own words and to avoid using the sentence structure of the reading selection. Consider multimodal elements (if any) as well as text. Remember that your summary should restate the selection’s main idea and include only the most important supporting ideas.
Below is an example summary of this reading selection: Beth L. Bailey explains the evolution of dating and contrasts it with the previous system of calling. Dating shifted the financial responsibility of courtship from the woman to the man. She argues that the more explicit transactional nature of dating ultimately confers more power on men than the earlier system conferred on either women or men. Your summary will differ from this one in the way it is written, but it should include roughly the same information.

VOCABULARY QUIZ

Explain the meaning of each of the following words as it is used in the reading:

Question 5.27

Supplant (par. 2)
Supplant means toreplace or displace.

Question 5.28

Fortnight (par. 5)
Fortnight means two weeks.

Question 5.29

Exotica (par. 7)
Exotica means a person or thing considered excitingly different or interesting.