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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 13, The Forfeited Self.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which women are more often the sex-seekers than finders?
(a) The city housewives.
(b) The metropolis housewives.
(c) The suburban housewives.
(d) The rural housewives.

2. The most challenging and time consuming tasks of housework can be handled in capacity by a(n) ______________.
(a) Highly intelligent woman.
(b) Eleven-year-old child.
(c) Nine-year-old child.
(d) Eight-year-old child.

3. Why isn't a woman encouraged to buy whatever needed to get her out of the home and finding herself?
(a) Career women are harder to sell to.
(b) Husbands aren't interested in new gadgets.
(c) The product vendors need housewives, not independent women.
(d) None of these.

4. What was the name of the life adjustment course given to eleven- to thirteen-year-old girls?
(a) How to Get Married Fast!
(b) How To Date.
(c) The Quick Chick.
(d) The Slick Chick.

5. What sparked the White House's interest?
(a) A rise in political instability.
(b) A rise in violent crime.
(c) A rise in juvinile delinquency.
(d) Muscular deterioration.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Margaret Mead's work persuade women to do?

2. What is contrary to the feminine mystique?

3. What is the only frontier available to women that have lived always within the confines of the feminine mystique?

4. What reason is not given for women who possess a low dominance personality in regards to leadership?

5. Why couldn't women study physics?

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