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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 is the really crucial role of the housewife?
(a) To raise children.
(b) To buy more things for the house.
(c) To be a good wife.
(d) All of these.

2. What did most of the people who studied the 'discontinuity' of women say it was caused by?
(a) Education.
(b) Believing that they have the same potential as boys.
(c) Testing their own powers in the world.
(d) All of these.

3. Which statement best fits the main problem?
(a) Women had lost their self identity.
(b) Women had become too comfortable.
(c) Women longed for careers.
(d) Women weren't challenged in their lifestyle.

4. What did Margaret Mead's work persuade women to do?
(a) Give up their femininity in exchange for their humanity.
(b) Give up their humanity in exchange for their femininity.
(c) All of these.
(d) Pursue an education despite the potential cost of family life.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Freud believe of his studies when he had passed away?

2. What was the common thread between all the women that Mrs. Friedan interviewed?

3. What is the first age that the crisis hits?

4. What was to be capitalized on in order to keep selling products?

5. What is unlikely to happen without education?

(see the answer key)

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