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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 12, Progressive Dehumanization: The Comfortable Concentration Camp.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How was the cold feeling that women experienced following a fear technique employed by the feminine mystique?
(a) It was compared to the life career women felt.
(b) It was explained that they could feel this in marriage too.
(c) It was a way to keep marriages occurring in post war America.
(d) None of these.

2. What must women do to avoid the dehumanization of their children?
(a) Cling to their husbands.
(b) Grow up and have interests outside of being a wife and mother.
(c) Live deeper within the feminine mystique.
(d) Cling more to their children.

3. What was the problem with the vast majority of men and boys born to mothers enthralled in the mystique?
(a) They were forever likely to take on neurosis.
(b) They never grew up.
(c) All of these.
(d) They were unfit for duty on the front or as husbands.

4. "______ not _____ is the tie that binds."
(a) Love, respect.
(b) Trust, love.
(c) Respect, love.
(d) Love, trust.

5. How were women martyred during hunger strikes?
(a) They were forcibly fed.
(b) They were flogged and beaten.
(c) They were starved to death.
(d) They were killed.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the degradation of women also denigrate?

2. With which did the feminist movement gain strength?

3. What was the only thing that these kids looked for?

4. What is the scary thing for women who want to finish their education?

5. What two things are at the very heart of the feminine mystique?

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