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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 10, Housewifery Expands to Fill the Time Available.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Which women were happiest?
(a) Uneducated women.
(b) Unmarried women.
(c) Married women.
(d) Educated women.

3. How was the cold feeling that women experienced following a fear technique employed by the feminine mystique?
(a) It was a way to keep marriages occurring in post war America.
(b) It was compared to the life career women felt.
(c) None of these.
(d) It was explained that they could feel this in marriage too.

4. Housework presents _______________.
(a) An interesting job description for American women.
(b) No difficulty to the adult mind.
(c) I don't know.
(d) A significant challenge.

5. How did the labor saving appliance work?
(a) To create an increase in labor due to elaboration.
(b) To decrease the time it took for the modern woman to do things.
(c) To increase the functional time of a woman.
(d) By plugging it in.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the most powerful perpetuator(s) of the feminine mystique?

2. What should be the goal of every normal woman?

3. What do Freud's writings give more credit?

4. What had become a trap?

5. How many children did Sojourner Truth claim to have?

(see the answer key)

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