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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6, The Functional Freeze, the Feminine Protest, and Margaret Mead.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What terrifies the seventeen-year-old girl?
(a) Having children.
(b) Marrying a man like her father.
(c) Being like her mother.
(d) Becoming a career woman.

3. What was Freud most concerned about in regards to society?
(a) All of these.
(b) He didn't want to change it, but rather to help people adjust to it.
(c) He wanted to help them in the suffrage movement.
(d) He wanted to open the doors for women.

4. What is a compliment to a woman in the act of creation of a child?
(a) Breastfeeding.
(b) Rearing the child.
(c) Maternal instinct.
(d) The desire to protect the home.

5. Which tribe do men and women assume masculine roles?
(a) Tchambuli
(b) Mundugumor.
(c) Arapesh.
(d) Tarapesh.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Freud believe that all neurosis stemmed from?

2. What narrow comfort is offered women to become homemakers?

3. What happened following Margaret's work?

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

5. What became a dirty word?

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