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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 does "acting out" mean in psycho-therapeutic terms?
(a) Behavior that is not in accordance with reality.
(b) Behavior that is emulated by the parents.
(c) Delinquent behavior.
(d) Behavior that is contrary to what is desireable.

2. What did Freud believe that all neurosis stemmed from?
(a) Sexual appetite.
(b) Sexual oppression.
(c) Sexual abuse.
(d) Sexual repression.

3. What was so terrifying to women not about to be married?
(a) Knowing they will never achieve their goals.
(b) Not fitting in with social requirements.
(c) Being childless and alone.
(d) Not knowing what they were going to do with their lives.

4. Why do women have to suffer the problem of identity?
(a) To become human.
(b) All of these.
(c) To mature.
(d) To grow.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the only thing that these kids looked for?

2. How many children did Sojourner Truth claim to have?

3. What is the only frontier available to women that have lived always within the confines of the feminine mystique?

4. What was the problem with the vast majority of men and boys born to mothers enthralled in the mystique?

5. How much money did the magazine offer to those who submit their problems to promote it?

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