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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 was blamed for every problem American children faced?
(a) Their fathers.
(b) Their mothers.
(c) Society at large.
(d) Themselves.

2. Why isn't a woman encouraged to buy whatever needed to get her out of the home and finding herself?
(a) The product vendors need housewives, not independent women.
(b) None of these.
(c) Husbands aren't interested in new gadgets.
(d) Career women are harder to sell to.

3. How is spinsterhood viewed?
(a) As an awesome responsibility to the nation.
(b) As a personal tragedy.
(c) As a noble sacrifice.
(d) As a respected way of life.

4. In regards to both of Freud's main theories, what does it say about his cultural upbringing?
(a) All of these.
(b) He thought women were meant to be as slaves.
(c) Women were considered inferior.
(d) He thought that women were meant to be taken advantage of.

5. If education has made American women feel trapped, frustrated and guilty as housewives, it is surely a sign that ___________________________.
(a) American women shouldn't attatch to children and husband.
(b) American women should stay at home.
(c) American women shouldn't be educated.
(d) American women have outgrown the housewife role.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the feminine protest do?

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

3. How many hours a week did a housewife who lived in a city of over 100,000 work in the home?

4. If a woman were to fight for her rights, she would _____ _____?

5. How much greater was the number of disturbed young wives over any other group other than their husbands?

(see the answer key)

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