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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. The younger generation was consumed with the only aspiration of ____________________.
(a) Getting a quality education.
(b) Being an independent women.
(c) Being a housewife.
(d) Being a good mother.

2. If a woman were to fight for her rights, she would _____ _____?
(a) Unsex herself.
(b) Never mate.
(c) Deny womanhood.
(d) Defy God.

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

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

5. In what would Martha take refuge?
(a) The drawing room.
(b) Silence.
(c) Her children.
(d) All of these.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why couldn't Betty read a word of the science that had once almost been her life's calling?

2. What became a dirty word?

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

4. How were women martyred during hunger strikes?

5. Why do women participate in politics according to "Women's Home Companion" September 1955?

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