The Feminine Mystique | Short Question Answer Key

Short Answer Key

Chapter 1, The Problem That Has No Name

1. What silent question did women ask themselves?

"Is this all?"

2. What was the literature offered telling women to do?

To seek fulfillment as wives and mothers.

3. Why couldn't women study physics?

It was considered unfeminine.

4. What problem wasn't caused by soap or cured by Cortisone?

Housewife's Blight.

5. What was women's unhappiness blamed on?

Too much education.

6. Which women were happiest?

Unmarried women.

7. Which statement best fits the main problem?

Women had lost their self identity.

8. What kind of pharmaceuticals were women taking?

Tranquilizers.

9. How many hours did the average housewife sleep, but still found themselves tired?

As much as ten hours a day.

10. The younger generation was consumed with the only aspiration of ____________________.

Being a housewife.

11. What was the new sexual problem in marriages?

The women had more...
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