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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why are the girls at college?
(a) To fulfill their sexual function.
(b) Both of those.
(c) Neither of these.
(d) To get an education.

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

3. Where were young women's passions lying after the suffrage?
(a) In getting married before graduating college.
(b) In traveling the world.
(c) In getting a career.
(d) In getting engaged before graduating college.

4. "The problem for women today is not ______, but a problem of _______?
(a) Sexual, Identity.
(b) Identity, Sexual.
(c) Sexual, Education.
(d) Education, Identity.

5. In regards to both of Freud's main theories, what does it say about his cultural upbringing?
(a) He thought that women were meant to be taken advantage of.
(b) He thought women were meant to be as slaves.
(c) Women were considered inferior.
(d) All of these.

6. What should an education do?
(a) None of these.
(b) Increase mental capacity.
(c) Help people to figure out what it is they want from life.
(d) Broaden outlook on the world.

7. Which statement best fits the main problem?
(a) Women longed for careers.
(b) Women had lost their self identity.
(c) Women weren't challenged in their lifestyle.
(d) Women had become too comfortable.

8. Where are the chains to the housewives' trap located?
(a) Within the walls of their homes.
(b) Within in the confines of wife and motherhood.
(c) In their own relationships with those around them.
(d) In their own mind and spirit.

9. What problem wasn't caused by soap or cured by Cortisone?
(a) Housewife's Blight.
(b) Chicken pox.
(c) Hives.
(d) Mumps.

10. What did Freud believe of his studies when he had passed away?
(a) That his deductions about the female psyche were complete.
(b) That he was the leading word on the subject.
(c) That his word was law and answered all questions.
(d) All of these.

11. What does the girl from honors history suspect happened to her to cause her to drop out?
(a) None of these.
(b) She wanted to marry.
(c) She was forced out by male educators.
(d) She lost courage.

12. What is the "great mistake of Western Culture"?
(a) The availability of an education to women.
(b) The overemphasis on femininity.
(c) The availability of work to women.
(d) The undervaluation of femininity.

13. What was the new sexual problem in marriages?
(a) The women had no sexual appetite.
(b) The women had a desire to have more and more children.
(c) The women found themselves frigid and unable to be aroused.
(d) The women had more of an appetite than their men could satisfy.

14. What was it said that men had that women didn't?
(a) The ability to be impassioned.
(b) Penises.
(c) Minds.
(d) The ability to reason.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does an educator have to be daring to suggest non-conformity in regards to sex based education?

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

3. Which women were happiest?

4. What was the name of the life adjustment course given to eleven- to thirteen-year-old girls?

5. How did Freud view his soon-to-be wife?

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