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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is characteristic of underdeveloped nations?
(a) Early marriage.
(b) Early sex.
(c) Early sex, early marriage.
(d) None of these.

2. What was interesting about the lives of all of the women within the mystique?
(a) They were always dissatisfied with their marital affairs.
(b) They were always frantically busy.
(c) They were all thirty pounds overweight.
(d) They were always envying their neighbors.

3. What was the common thread between all the women that Mrs. Friedan interviewed?
(a) They all had found fulfillment outside of the home.
(b) All of these.
(c) They all weren't fulltime housewives.
(d) They all had passions and knew what they wanted.

4. Why isn't a woman encouraged to buy whatever needed to get her out of the home and finding herself?
(a) Husbands aren't interested in new gadgets.
(b) The product vendors need housewives, not independent women.
(c) None of these.
(d) Career women are harder to sell to.

5. The strongest sexual pleasures are found in ______ ______ _____ .
(a) Homes and workforce.
(b) School and self-realization.
(c) Self-debasing people.
(d) Self-actualizing people.

6. How much of all advertising budget is spent to appeal to women?
(a) Ninety.
(b) Seventy-five.
(c) Eighty.
(d) Seventy.

7. Why is the "Career Woman" not a good market to sell to?
(a) She is harder to sell to.
(b) She has no time to shop.
(c) She isn't interested and has housekeepers.
(d) She doesn't care about promotions.

8. How did women seek to fill the void that their lack of self created?
(a) Neither of these.
(b) Both of these.
(c) They turned to their husbands.
(d) They turned to their children.

9. In 1948, what was the percentage of men that had had some homosexual experience?
(a) Twenty-two.
(b) Twenty-eight.
(c) Thirty-eight.
(d) Thirty-seven.

10. Who was always blamed for the neurosis of men?
(a) Their sisters and brothers.
(b) Their mothers and wives.
(c) Their education and ambitions.
(d) Their jobs and careers.

11. How do women find enjoyment in being a woman?
(a) They stop listening to their parents speaking for them.
(b) They stop conforming to the image of femininty.
(c) All of these.
(d) They decide that their lives as an individual are far more important.

12. Who wrote the famous study in maternal overprotection?
(a) Dr. Spock.
(b) Dr. Strecker.
(c) Arnold Green.
(d) David Levy.

13. What was the real cause of feminism and women's frustration?
(a) The lack of appreciation for the housewife's role.
(b) The lack or respect gained for the housewifes role.
(c) All of these.
(d) The emptiness in the housewife's role.

14. What was blamed for every problem American children faced?
(a) Their mothers.
(b) Themselves.
(c) Society at large.
(d) Their fathers.

15. What is needed to put an end to the housewives' lack of fulfillment?
(a) The installation of some courage into the average American housewives.
(b) None of these.
(c) A national education program for women who want to seriously continue their education.
(d) A co-operative union of housewives to fund the return to education.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the easiest way out of figuring out who you are and what it is you want out of life?

2. How much greater was the number of disturbed young wives over any other group other than their husbands?

3. What is the key to getting out of the trap of the mystique?

4. Why is it easier to live through someone else as opposed to finding yourself?

5. What two things are at the very heart of the feminine mystique?

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