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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Why couldn't women study physics?
(a) They weren't allowed in the classes.
(b) They didn't have the aptitude for it.
(c) It was considered unfeminine.
(d) They didn't want to study it.

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

4. What was the only answer possible in Freudian logic to make women satisfied?
(a) Education, freedom and rights are wrong for women.
(b) Beatification procedures.
(c) Weekly "Womens' meetings".
(d) Much more sex, and that they need to make more babies.

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

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

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

8. What problem arises in women who marry first and ask questions later?
(a) They never grow up.
(b) All of these.
(c) They have nothing to be impassioned about.
(d) They don't know who they are, and their role in the world.

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

10. 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) Women didn't care for this kind of information.
(d) None of these.

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

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

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

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

15. What did Margaret Mead's work persuade women to do?
(a) All of these.
(b) Pursue an education despite the potential cost of family life.
(c) Give up their femininity in exchange for their humanity.
(d) Give up their humanity in exchange for their femininity.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the degradation of women also denigrate?

2. Why do women have to suffer the problem of identity?

3. What do Freud's writings give more credit?

4. How is spinsterhood viewed?

5. Where were young women's passions lying after the suffrage?

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