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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 literature offered telling women to do?
(a) To seek fulfillment as wives and mothers.
(b) Where their role in society was.
(c) To reproduce and be happy.
(d) That their husbands rule all, and a womans' place is in the house.

2. What is considered "phallic activity"?
(a) Things that normally pertain to men.
(b) Holding ones' genitals.
(c) None of these.
(d) All of these.

3. What two things are at the very heart of the feminine mystique?
(a) Deception and lack of self.
(b) Lack of self and vicarious living.
(c) Noncommitment and lack of self.
(d) Noncommitment and vicarious living.

4. What gave women peace of mind?
(a) The idea that they were not alone.
(b) The answer to the nameless problem.
(c) Women's husbands.
(d) The collective feeling that they had achieved something in talking.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. "The problem for women today is not ______, but a problem of _______?

3. What is Nora, to herself, first and foremost?

4. What requires increased glamorization every year?

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

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