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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What should an education do?
(a) Broaden outlook on the world.
(b) None of these.
(c) Increase mental capacity.
(d) Help people to figure out what it is they want from life.

2. What do Freud's writings give more credit?
(a) None of these.
(b) To the mature expression of sexual interest.
(c) To the pre-pubescent expression of sexual interest.
(d) To the expression of infantile sexual interest.

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

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

5. How does a daughter see "don't become a housewife like me"?
(a) As a sign of frustration that she cannot savor her relationship with her husband,
(b) As a failing in the marriage; a sign of infidelity.
(c) As a failing in themselves, and their financial position in the world.
(d) As a failing in the woman, not in the circumstance.

6. Which tribe do men and women assume masculine roles?
(a) Arapesh.
(b) Mundugumor.
(c) Tchambuli
(d) Tarapesh.

7. What was the name of the life adjustment course given to eleven- to thirteen-year-old girls?
(a) The Slick Chick.
(b) How to Get Married Fast!
(c) The Quick Chick.
(d) How To Date.

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

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

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

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

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

13. What silent question did women ask themselves?
(a) "What am I missing?"
(b) "Is this all?"
(c) "Why am I not content with this world?"
(d) "What else is there to life?"

14. What is Nora, to herself, first and foremost?
(a) None of these.
(b) A bitter wife.
(c) A reasonable human being.
(d) A man hater.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What doesn't work together to produce femininity?

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

3. How is the identity of women determined?

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

5. What is stressed in a functional education?

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