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

2. What lesson could girls not help but learn in college between 1945 and 1960?
(a) How not to get interested in anything but getting married and having kids.
(b) How to cater to your mans needs.
(c) How to take your career seriously.
(d) How to take care of yourself as an individual.

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

4. What does Marriage for Moderns say about women and their roles?
(a) They are inferior to men.
(b) They are complimentary to men.
(c) They are in excess of men.
(d) They are superior to men.

5. Where were young women's passions lying after the suffrage?
(a) In getting married before graduating college.
(b) In traveling the world.
(c) In getting engaged before graduating college.
(d) In getting a career.

Short Answer Questions

1. What gave women peace of mind?

2. Who first formulated the simple principle that "work expands to fill the time available"?

3. Why do women have to suffer the problem of identity?

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

5. What is the important thing for a girl?

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