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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What did all the pioneering feminists resist?
(a) Early marriage.
(b) Sexual degradation.
(c) All of these.
(d) Marital subservience.

4. What problem wasn't caused by soap or cured by Cortisone?
(a) Housewife's Blight.
(b) Hives.
(c) Chicken pox.
(d) Mumps.

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

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

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

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

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

10. What did most of the people who studied the 'discontinuity' of women say it was caused by?
(a) Testing their own powers in the world.
(b) Education.
(c) All of these.
(d) Believing that they have the same potential as boys.

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

12. How long did it take "Sarah and the Seaplane" to become "Sarah the Sandwich Maker"?
(a) Ten years.
(b) Four years.
(c) Five years.
(d) Six years.

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

14. What terrifies the seventeen-year-old girl?
(a) Becoming a career woman.
(b) Having children.
(c) Marrying a man like her father.
(d) Being like her mother.

15. What kind of pharmaceuticals were women taking?
(a) Laxatives.
(b) Sleeping pills.
(c) Mood elevators.
(d) Tranquilizers.

Short Answer Questions

1. How was the career driven woman vanquished from the population?

2. What is the problem with educating women early to fulfill their sexual roles in regards to the opposite sex?

3. What does Parsons find in sexual segregation?

4. What does the feminine protest do?

5. What was the name of the life adjustment course given to eleven- to thirteen-year-old girls?

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