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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9, The Sexual Sell.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What requires increased glamorization every year?
(a) The allure of being a wife.
(b) The occupation of housewife.
(c) The Feminine Mystique.
(d) The occupation of motherhood.

2. What is a compliment to a woman in the act of creation of a child?
(a) The desire to protect the home.
(b) Breastfeeding.
(c) Rearing the child.
(d) Maternal instinct.

3. What drains away the needs that cannot really be filled by the home and family?
(a) The working to pay bills.
(b) The saving of money.
(c) The spending of money.
(d) The buying of things.

4. What lesson could girls not help but learn in college between 1945 and 1960?
(a) How to take your career seriously.
(b) How to take care of yourself as an individual.
(c) How not to get interested in anything but getting married and having kids.
(d) How to cater to your mans needs.

5. What is unlikely to happen without education?
(a) Women are likely to have children at younger ages.
(b) Women are not likely to develop deep interests outside their biology.
(c) Women are likely to marry younger and younger.
(d) All of these.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the only answer possible in Freudian logic to make women satisfied?

2. What does Mrs. Freidan question in regards to Freudian thought?

3. What gave women peace of mind?

4. How was the young housewife supposed to spend money and not feel guilty about it?

5. What doesn't work together to produce femininity?

(see the answer key)

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