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

2. Why do women participate in politics according to "Women's Home Companion" September 1955?
(a) They pay attention to political parties.
(b) They desire change in government.
(c) Politics is a topic for which both parties can share.
(d) It concerns their home and husband.

3. What is the easiest way out of figuring out who you are and what it is you want out of life?
(a) All of these.
(b) Having children.
(c) Sex and early marriage.
(d) Sex and children.

4. What had become a trap?
(a) The lack of personal image in women.
(b) The home life.
(c) The disregard of the way women feel.
(d) The small-minded image of women.

5. Who wrote the famous study in maternal overprotection?
(a) David Levy.
(b) Dr. Spock.
(c) Dr. Strecker.
(d) Arnold Green.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which women were happiest?

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

3. What is unlikely to happen without education?

4. In what would Martha take refuge?

5. Housework was specially suited to what kind of girls?

(see the answer key)

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