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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is necessary for the women to be happy in their lives, according to Mirra?
(a) They must embrace their role as women.
(b) They must reproduce.
(c) They must remain infantile.
(d) They must find themselves first.

2. What is stressed in a functional education?
(a) Conformity.
(b) Individuality.
(c) Neither of these.
(d) I don't know.

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

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

5. How many signatures did Susan Anthony collect?
(a) Fifteen hundred.
(b) Ten thousand.
(c) Six thousand.
(d) Two thousand.

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

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

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

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

10. What is considered "phallic activity"?
(a) None of these.
(b) Holding ones' genitals.
(c) All of these.
(d) Things that normally pertain to men.

11. Margaret Mead frequently _______ herself.
(a) Praises.
(b) Admonishes.
(c) Contradicts.
(d) Debases.

12. Why do women have to suffer the problem of identity?
(a) To become human.
(b) All of these.
(c) To mature.
(d) To grow.

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

14. What does the feminine protest do?
(a) All of these.
(b) Over glorifies the female role as the reproductive unit.
(c) Makes more of a woman than there ever could be.
(d) Overvalues women's roles in society.

15. How many children did Sojourner Truth claim to have?
(a) Six.
(b) Two.
(c) Five.
(d) Thirteen.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Marriage for Moderns say about women and their roles?

2. What gave women peace of mind?

3. What was so terrifying to women not about to be married?

4. What was Freud most concerned about in regards to society?

5. What does Mrs. Freidan question in regards to Freudian thought?

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