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

2. Where are the chains to the housewives' trap located?
(a) In their own relationships with those around them.
(b) Within the walls of their homes.
(c) In their own mind and spirit.
(d) Within in the confines of wife and motherhood.

3. Who first formulated the simple principle that "work expands to fill the time available"?
(a) C. Northcote Parkinson.
(b) P. Northcote Parkinson.
(c) C Northcote Parkinton.
(d) C. Northcoat Parkinson.

4. What was really difficult to sell?
(a) Gold plated dishes.
(b) Dishwashers.
(c) Sterling silver.
(d) Electronics.

5. What did the union member get labeled as?
(a) All of these.
(b) A feminist sympathizer.
(c) An anarchist.
(d) None of these.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where were young women's passions lying after the suffrage?

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

3. How is spinsterhood viewed?

4. What problem wasn't caused by soap or cured by Cortisone?

5. Who wrote the famous study in maternal overprotection?

(see the answer key)

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