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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. What did the union member get labeled as?
(a) All of these.
(b) A feminist sympathizer.
(c) An anarchist.
(d) None of these.

2. Newspaper headlines screamed that working mothers were responsible for __________________.
(a) Molly coddling their children.
(b) Neither of these.
(c) Juvenile delinquency.
(d) Both of these.

3. Who wrote the famous study in maternal overprotection?
(a) David Levy.
(b) Dr. Strecker.
(c) Arnold Green.
(d) Dr. Spock.

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

5. What weren't these feminists called?
(a) Perverts.
(b) Spinsters.
(c) Sex starved.
(d) Penis enviers.

Short Answer Questions

1. By what percent did the rate of teenage mothers increase between 1940 and 1957?

2. What sparked the White House's interest?

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

4. Which mothers were more sure of themselves?

5. What was blamed for every problem American children faced?

(see the answer key)

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