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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 all the pioneering feminists resist?
(a) Sexual degradation.
(b) All of these.
(c) Early marriage.
(d) Marital subservience.

2. How many signatures did Susan Anthony collect?
(a) Fifteen hundred.
(b) Six thousand.
(c) Ten thousand.
(d) Two thousand.

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

4. What was the only thing that these kids looked for?
(a) None of these.
(b) Studies.
(c) Kicks.
(d) Work.

5. 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) None of these.
(c) It was a way to keep marriages occurring in post war America.
(d) It was explained that they could feel this in marriage too.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does "acting out" mean in psycho-therapeutic terms?

2. What was the problem with the vast majority of men and boys born to mothers enthralled in the mystique?

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

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

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

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