The Feminine Mystique Test | Mid-Book Test - Easy

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The Feminine Mystique Test | Mid-Book Test - Easy

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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is the problem with educating women early to fulfill their sexual roles in regards to the opposite sex?
(a) Their children only have one role.
(b) All of these.
(c) Their men can't achieve their full potentials.
(d) Their relationships are doomed to suffocate.

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

4. What did the degradation of women also denigrate?
(a) Love.
(b) All relations between men and women.
(c) All of these.
(d) Marriage.

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

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

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

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

9. Why wouldn't the final voice on magazine publication allow information that wasn't involved with the home into the magazine?
(a) Women were divorced from the nature of the world outside the home.
(b) Women weren't smart enough to comprehend information that didn't involve the home.
(c) None of these.
(d) Women didn't care for this kind of information.

10. Why do women participate in politics according to "Women's Home Companion" September 1955?
(a) It concerns their home and husband.
(b) They desire change in government.
(c) Politics is a topic for which both parties can share.
(d) They pay attention to political parties.

11. Why does mankind not completely live in the present?
(a) The ideologies of the superego live in the past.
(b) They are able to blow things too far out of proportion.
(c) They are plagued with their knowledge of a past.
(d) They are more concerned about the future.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the feminine protest do?

2. What did Margaret Mead's work persuade women to do?

3. How is the identity of women determined?

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

5. How many signatures did Susan Anthony collect?

(see the answer keys)

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