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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 13, The Forfeited Self.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is considered "phallic activity"?
(a) Holding ones' genitals.
(b) None of these.
(c) Things that normally pertain to men.
(d) All of these.

2. What was the new sexual problem in marriages?
(a) The women found themselves frigid and unable to be aroused.
(b) The women had no sexual appetite.
(c) The women had more of an appetite than their men could satisfy.
(d) The women had a desire to have more and more children.

3. How is the identity of women determined?
(a) By her own choices.
(b) By biology.
(c) By how good of a wife she is.
(d) By how many children she has.

4. What is the only frontier available to women that have lived always within the confines of the feminine mystique?
(a) Marriage.
(b) None of these.
(c) Sex.
(d) Love.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the most powerful perpetuator(s) of the feminine mystique?

2. What was not a part of women's worlds?

3. What kind of pharmaceuticals were women taking?

4. What two things are at the very heart of the feminine mystique?

5. What is the unique characteristic of human existence?

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