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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 occurred in the last decade?
(a) An increase in preoccupation with sex.
(b) Both of these.
(c) An increase in sexual activity.
(d) Neither of these.

2. In what would Martha take refuge?
(a) All of these.
(b) Silence.
(c) The drawing room.
(d) Her children.

3. The most challenging and time consuming tasks of housework can be handled in capacity by a(n) ______________.
(a) Highly intelligent woman.
(b) Eight-year-old child.
(c) Nine-year-old child.
(d) Eleven-year-old child.

4. Who was always blamed for the neurosis of men?
(a) Their jobs and careers.
(b) Their mothers and wives.
(c) Their education and ambitions.
(d) Their sisters and brothers.

5. How was the cold feeling that women experienced following a fear technique employed by the feminine mystique?
(a) None of these.
(b) It was explained that they could feel this in marriage too.
(c) It was a way to keep marriages occurring in post war America.
(d) It was compared to the life career women felt.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the functionalist's primary concern?

2. What did most of the people who studied the 'discontinuity' of women say it was caused by?

3. How is spinsterhood viewed?

4. How did the image of sex change?

5. Why wouldn't the final voice on magazine publication allow information that wasn't involved with the home into the magazine?

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