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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 12, Progressive Dehumanization: The Comfortable Concentration Camp.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was wrong with children?
(a) They were following the feminine mystique to the letter.
(b) They all sleepwalked.
(c) They were going through their lives without passion or direction.
(d) They lacked fire.

2. 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) Pursue an education despite the potential cost of family life.
(d) All of these.

3. What is Nora, to herself, first and foremost?
(a) A reasonable human being.
(b) A bitter wife.
(c) None of these.
(d) A man hater.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How did the image of sex change?

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

3. Why couldn't women study physics?

4. Why do women participate in politics according to "Women's Home Companion" September 1955?

5. What was the name of the life adjustment course given to eleven- to thirteen-year-old girls?

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