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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the key problem in promiscuity?
(a) Low self esteem.
(b) Conditioning by the parents.
(c) High self esteem.
(d) Boredom.

2. What have psychiatrists used to cure neurosis in the past?
(a) They tried to help them debase their own potential.
(b) They used brainscans to monitor the changes in the patient.
(c) They used electroshock therapy.
(d) They tried to fit them into a culture.

3. What accompanies the growth in mental activity?
(a) Postponed erections.
(b) Postponed families.
(c) Postponed marriages.
(d) Postponement of sexual activity.

4. What is the unique characteristic of human existence?
(a) The ability to learn from the past and transpose it to the future and present.
(b) All of these.
(c) The ability to transpose past in to
(d) The ability to see ones experience in the past and future.

5. How was the young housewife supposed to spend money and not feel guilty about it?
(a) By buying things that made her feel good.
(b) All of these.
(c) By buying products for the home and family.
(d) By buying things to help her marriage.

6. Why is it easier to live through someone else as opposed to finding yourself?
(a) None of these.
(b) There are many problems to be faced with the family.
(c) It is frightening.
(d) There is a lot of criticism.

7. Out of twenty-five women, how many were serious enough to write a resume to improve their lives?
(a) Two.
(b) Ten.
(c) One.
(d) Five.

8. 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) They decide that their lives as an individual are far more important.
(d) All of these.

9. What occurred in the last decade?
(a) Both of these.
(b) Neither of these.
(c) An increase in sexual activity.
(d) An increase in preoccupation with sex.

10. "______ not _____ is the tie that binds."
(a) Love, trust.
(b) Respect, love.
(c) Love, respect.
(d) Trust, love.

11. What is instinctive in the human sense?
(a) Food and sex.
(b) Sex and shelter.
(c) Knowlege and self realization.
(d) Growth and self realization.

12. Housework presents _______________.
(a) A significant challenge.
(b) I don't know.
(c) No difficulty to the adult mind.
(d) An interesting job description for American women.

13. What are considered "mutations"?
(a) Men wanting to be housewives.
(b) Women who pursue careers despite their handicap of gender.
(c) All of these.
(d) Asexual woman.

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

15. What two things are at the very heart of the feminine mystique?
(a) Deception and lack of self.
(b) Noncommitment and lack of self.
(c) Lack of self and vicarious living.
(d) Noncommitment and vicarious living.

Short Answer Questions

1. Women's chances at happiness in marriage _______ as their career participation ________ .

2. What is characteristic of underdeveloped nations?

3. What is contrary to the feminine mystique?

4. What sparked the White House's interest?

5. Who first formulated the simple principle that "work expands to fill the time available"?

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