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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5, The Sexual Solipsism of Sigmund Freud.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which statement best fits the main problem?
(a) Women had lost their self identity.
(b) Women longed for careers.
(c) Women had become too comfortable.
(d) Women weren't challenged in their lifestyle.

2. What was so terrifying to women not about to be married?
(a) Being childless and alone.
(b) Knowing they will never achieve their goals.
(c) Not fitting in with social requirements.
(d) Not knowing what they were going to do with their lives.

3. How were women martyred during hunger strikes?
(a) They were killed.
(b) They were flogged and beaten.
(c) They were starved to death.
(d) They were forcibly fed.

4. What kind of pharmaceuticals were women taking?
(a) Mood elevators.
(b) Tranquilizers.
(c) Sleeping pills.
(d) Laxatives.

5. How does a daughter see "don't become a housewife like me"?
(a) As a failing in themselves, and their financial position in the world.
(b) As a sign of frustration that she cannot savor her relationship with her husband,
(c) As a failing in the marriage; a sign of infidelity.
(d) As a failing in the woman, not in the circumstance.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Freud view his soon-to-be wife?

2. What was women's unhappiness blamed on?

3. What requires increased glamorization every year?

4. How long did it take "Sarah and the Seaplane" to become "Sarah the Sandwich Maker"?

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

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