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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 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) Cling more to their children.
(d) Live deeper within the feminine mystique.

2. How many children did Sojourner Truth claim to have?
(a) Thirteen.
(b) Five.
(c) Two.
(d) Six.

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

4. If education has made American women feel trapped, frustrated and guilty as housewives, it is surely a sign that ___________________________.
(a) American women have outgrown the housewife role.
(b) American women should stay at home.
(c) American women shouldn't be educated.
(d) American women shouldn't attatch to children and husband.

5. How did Andras Angyal describe this weakness?
(a) A psychotic evasion of growth,
(b) A neurotic evasion of growth.
(c) A social evasion of growth.
(d) None of these.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. With which did the feminist movement gain strength?

3. "______ not _____ is the tie that binds."

4. What was it said that men had that women didn't?

5. How was the cold feeling that women experienced following a fear technique employed by the feminine mystique?

(see the answer key)

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