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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What do Freud's writings give more credit?
(a) To the expression of infantile sexual interest.
(b) To the pre-pubescent expression of sexual interest.
(c) None of these.
(d) To the mature expression of sexual interest.

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

5. What is a compliment to a woman in the act of creation of a child?
(a) The desire to protect the home.
(b) Rearing the child.
(c) Breastfeeding.
(d) Maternal instinct.

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

7. What happened following Margaret's work?
(a) All of these.
(b) Women glorified their own femininity.
(c) Making babies took on a cultish meaning.
(d) Women found no other ways to create.

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

9. What was women's unhappiness blamed on?
(a) Too little education.
(b) Too much education.
(c) Their inability to work.
(d) Their ability to work.

10. What is the first age that the crisis hits?
(a) Eighteen.
(b) Forty-one.
(c) Twenty-five.
(d) Twenty-one.

11. What terrifies the seventeen-year-old girl?
(a) Being like her mother.
(b) Becoming a career woman.
(c) Having children.
(d) Marrying a man like her father.

12. What became a dirty word?
(a) Working woman.
(b) Free thinking woman.
(c) Opinionated woman.
(d) Career woman.

13. What requires increased glamorization every year?
(a) The Feminine Mystique.
(b) The occupation of motherhood.
(c) The allure of being a wife.
(d) The occupation of housewife.

14. What is unlikely to happen without education?
(a) Women are likely to marry younger and younger.
(b) All of these.
(c) Women are not likely to develop deep interests outside their biology.
(d) Women are likely to have children at younger ages.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What was not a part of women's worlds?

2. What doesn't work together to produce femininity?

3. Why does mankind not completely live in the present?

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

5. What is considered "phallic activity"?

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