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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did Freud view his soon-to-be wife?
(a) As a child.
(b) None of these.
(c) As an object.
(d) Both of these.

2. What lesson could girls not help but learn in college between 1945 and 1960?
(a) How to take care of yourself as an individual.
(b) How not to get interested in anything but getting married and having kids.
(c) How to cater to your mans needs.
(d) How to take your career seriously.

3. How is the identity of women determined?
(a) By biology.
(b) By her own choices.
(c) By how good of a wife she is.
(d) By how many children she has.

4. What narrow comfort is offered women to become homemakers?
(a) All of these.
(b) No woman can eternally resist the temptation of starting a family.
(c) To be successful she must know many arts.
(d) A woman's destiny revolves around the home.

5. What was Freud most concerned about in regards to society?
(a) He didn't want to change it, but rather to help people adjust to it.
(b) He wanted to help them in the suffrage movement.
(c) He wanted to open the doors for women.
(d) All of these.

6. What does Marriage for Moderns say about women and their roles?
(a) They are superior to men.
(b) They are inferior to men.
(c) They are in excess of men.
(d) They are complimentary to men.

7. What kind of pharmaceuticals were women taking?
(a) Tranquilizers.
(b) Sleeping pills.
(c) Mood elevators.
(d) Laxatives.

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

9. What did the union member get labeled as?
(a) A feminist sympathizer.
(b) All of these.
(c) None of these.
(d) An anarchist.

10. If a woman were to fight for her rights, she would _____ _____?
(a) Defy God.
(b) Unsex herself.
(c) Deny womanhood.
(d) Never mate.

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

12. How much money did the magazine offer to those who submit their problems to promote it?
(a) $300.
(b) $500.
(c) $250.
(d) $50.

13. What kind of act occurred in the feminist movement?
(a) An act of passivity.
(b) An act of rebellion.
(c) An act of war.
(d) An act of contrition.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What did Freud believe that all neurosis stemmed from?

3. What is a compliment to a woman in the act of creation of a child?

4. Which statement best fits the main problem?

5. What is necessary for the women to be happy in their lives, according to Mirra?

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