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

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

3. If a woman were to fight for her rights, she would _____ _____?
(a) Unsex herself.
(b) Defy God.
(c) Never mate.
(d) Deny womanhood.

4. How did women seek to fill the void that their lack of self created?
(a) Both of these.
(b) They turned to their husbands.
(c) They turned to their children.
(d) Neither of these.

5. Why isn't a woman encouraged to buy whatever needed to get her out of the home and finding herself?
(a) Career women are harder to sell to.
(b) None of these.
(c) The product vendors need housewives, not independent women.
(d) Husbands aren't interested in new gadgets.

Short Answer Questions

1. What narrow comfort is offered women to become homemakers?

2. In what would Martha take refuge?

3. How is spinsterhood viewed?

4. What is characteristic of underdeveloped nations?

5. The younger generation was consumed with the only aspiration of ____________________.

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