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

2. How did the image of sex change?
(a) Women had appetites men couldn't fill.
(b) Men had appetites women couldn't fill.
(c) Men were sexually chasing women.
(d) Women were sexually chasing men.

3. What does Parsons find in sexual segregation?
(a) It is archaic.
(b) It is integral.
(c) It is functional.
(d) It is necessary.

4. How did the labor saving appliance work?
(a) To create an increase in labor due to elaboration.
(b) By plugging it in.
(c) To decrease the time it took for the modern woman to do things.
(d) To increase the functional time of a woman.

5. How many hours did the average housewife sleep, but still found themselves tired?
(a) As much as ten hours a day.
(b) Eight hours a day.
(c) As much as twelve hours a day.
(d) Nine hours a day.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was wrong with children?

2. What is the important thing for a girl?

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

4. Newspaper headlines screamed that working mothers were responsible for __________________.

5. What was the real cause of feminism and women's frustration?

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