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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was considered 'real' life?
(a) Career life.
(b) Married life.
(c) Single life.
(d) Spinsterhood life.

2. How is spinsterhood viewed?
(a) As a respected way of life.
(b) As an awesome responsibility to the nation.
(c) As a personal tragedy.
(d) As a noble sacrifice.

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

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

5. What instrument did men in Bali use?
(a) Their voices.
(b) A flute.
(c) Drums.
(d) Xylophones.

6. How was the career driven woman vanquished from the population?
(a) She was denied the ability to have children.
(b) She was portrayed as evil.
(c) She was shown as being a bad person.
(d) She was shown as being disdainful.

7. The younger generation was consumed with the only aspiration of ____________________.
(a) Being an independent women.
(b) Getting a quality education.
(c) Being a housewife.
(d) Being a good mother.

8. What is the climax of adolescence?
(a) Enrolling in university.
(b) Having children.
(c) Deciding what one wants to be.
(d) Getting married and having kids.

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

10. 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 open the doors for women.
(c) He wanted to help them in the suffrage movement.
(d) All of these.

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

12. Why does an educator have to be daring to suggest non-conformity in regards to sex based education?
(a) They have to defy conventional educators.
(b) They have to disagree with the leading psychologists and psychotherapists.
(c) They have to challenge the conventional image of femininity.
(d) They have to challenge authority.

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

14. How many hours did the average housewife sleep, but still found themselves tired?
(a) Nine hours a day.
(b) As much as twelve hours a day.
(c) Eight hours a day.
(d) As much as ten hours a day.

15. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why are the girls at college?

2. How much money did the magazine offer to those who submit their problems to promote it?

3. What is the first age that the crisis hits?

4. What silent question did women ask themselves?

5. What does the girl from honors history suspect happened to her to cause her to drop out?

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