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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. How was the career driven woman vanquished from the population?
(a) She was shown as being a bad person.
(b) She was shown as being disdainful.
(c) She was denied the ability to have children.
(d) She was portrayed as evil.

2. What do Freud's writings give more credit?
(a) To the expression of infantile sexual interest.
(b) To the pre-pubescent expression of sexual interest.
(c) None of these.
(d) To the mature expression of sexual interest.

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

4. How was the young housewife supposed to spend money and not feel guilty about it?
(a) All of these.
(b) By buying things that made her feel good.
(c) By buying things to help her marriage.
(d) By buying products for the home and family.

5. With which did the feminist movement gain strength?
(a) The Revolution.
(b) The emancipation of American from the British throne.
(c) The movement to free the slaves.
(d) None of these.

Short Answer Questions

1. What lesson could girls not help but learn in college between 1945 and 1960?

2. What did Freud believe of his studies when he had passed away?

3. What need is deeply set within human nature?

4. What had become a trap?

5. What is the really crucial role of the housewife?

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