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

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

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

4. How was the career driven woman vanquished from the population?
(a) She was shown as being a bad person.
(b) She was portrayed as evil.
(c) She was shown as being disdainful.
(d) She was denied the ability to have children.

5. What is the climax of adolescence?
(a) Having children.
(b) Deciding what one wants to be.
(c) Enrolling in university.
(d) Getting married and having kids.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where are the chains to the housewives' trap located?

2. What had become a trap?

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

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

5. The younger generation was consumed with the only aspiration of ____________________.

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