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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Epilogue.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What silent question did women ask themselves?
(a) "Is this all?"
(b) "What am I missing?"
(c) "What else is there to life?"
(d) "Why am I not content with this world?"

2. What do women need for full identity and freedom?
(a) Economic independence.
(b) Total control over their lives.
(c) The ability to stand up and fight for their rights.
(d) The will to keep moving.

3. In a Rorschach test, a majority of animal images over human images is indicative of ___________________.
(a) Infancy.
(b) Maturity.
(c) Sexual promiscuity.
(d) Immaturity.

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

5. What problem arises in women who marry first and ask questions later?
(a) They have nothing to be impassioned about.
(b) All of these.
(c) They don't know who they are, and their role in the world.
(d) They never grow up.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is characteristic of underdeveloped nations?

3. Which women are more often the sex-seekers than finders?

4. What is contrary to the feminine mystique?

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

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