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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 problem arises in women who marry first and ask questions later?
(a) They never grow up.
(b) They have nothing to be impassioned about.
(c) They don't know who they are, and their role in the world.
(d) All of these.

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

3. Housework was specially suited to what kind of girls?
(a) Attractive girls.
(b) Able-minded girls.
(c) Intelligent girls.
(d) Feeble-minded girls.

4. What was the common thread between all the women that Mrs. Friedan interviewed?
(a) They all weren't fulltime housewives.
(b) They all had passions and knew what they wanted.
(c) They all had found fulfillment outside of the home.
(d) All of these.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How is the identity of women determined?

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

4. What does the girl from honors history suspect happened to her to cause her to drop out?

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

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