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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3, The Crisis of Woman's Identity.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How much money did the magazine offer to those who submit their problems to promote it?
(a) $250.
(b) $500.
(c) $300.
(d) $50.

3. 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 failing in the marriage; a sign of infidelity.
(c) As a failing in the woman, not in the circumstance.
(d) As a sign of frustration that she cannot savor her relationship with her husband,

4. What is the "great mistake of Western Culture"?
(a) The availability of work to women.
(b) The undervaluation of femininity.
(c) The overemphasis on femininity.
(d) The availability of an education to women.

5. What became a dirty word?
(a) Free thinking woman.
(b) Career woman.
(c) Working woman.
(d) Opinionated woman.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of pharmaceuticals were women taking?

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

3. Which statement best fits the main problem?

4. "The problem for women today is not ______, but a problem of _______?

5. What problem wasn't caused by soap or cured by Cortisone?

(see the answer key)

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