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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7, The Sex Directed Educators.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was considered 'real' life?
(a) Spinsterhood life.
(b) Career life.
(c) Single life.
(d) Married life.

2. What happened following Margaret's work?
(a) Making babies took on a cultish meaning.
(b) All of these.
(c) Women glorified their own femininity.
(d) Women found no other ways to create.

3. What requires increased glamorization every year?
(a) The Feminine Mystique.
(b) The allure of being a wife.
(c) The occupation of housewife.
(d) The occupation of motherhood.

4. How long did it take "Sarah and the Seaplane" to become "Sarah the Sandwich Maker"?
(a) Four years.
(b) Six years.
(c) Five years.
(d) Ten years.

5. Why do women participate in politics according to "Women's Home Companion" September 1955?
(a) It concerns their home and husband.
(b) They pay attention to political parties.
(c) They desire change in government.
(d) Politics is a topic for which both parties can share.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did most of the people who studied the 'discontinuity' of women say it was caused by?

2. What is the problem with educating women early to fulfill their sexual roles in regards to the opposite sex?

3. What should an education do?

4. What does Parsons find in sexual segregation?

5. What is the "great mistake of Western Culture"?

(see the answer key)

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