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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the easiest way out of figuring out who you are and what it is you want out of life?
(a) Sex and children.
(b) All of these.
(c) Sex and early marriage.
(d) Having children.

2. Which mothers were more sure of themselves?
(a) Chinese mothers.
(b) American mothers.
(c) Japanese mothers.
(d) Russian mothers.

3. Wives became __________________.
(a) Know it alls.
(b) Experts.
(c) All of these.
(d) Complete dominators of the household activities.

4. If education has made American women feel trapped, frustrated and guilty as housewives, it is surely a sign that ___________________________.
(a) American women should stay at home.
(b) American women have outgrown the housewife role.
(c) American women shouldn't be educated.
(d) American women shouldn't attatch to children and husband.

5. What is the really crucial role of the housewife?
(a) To buy more things for the house.
(b) To raise children.
(c) All of these.
(d) To be a good wife.

6. How many hours a week did a housewife who lived in a city of over 100,000 work in the home?
(a) 44.57.
(b) 78.35.
(c) 80.57.
(d) 60.55.

7. What was to be capitalized on in order to keep selling products?
(a) Guilt over the hidden dirt.
(b) Desire to get the best clean.
(c) None of these.
(d) Fear of exposure to deadly bacteria.

8. What is contrary to the feminine mystique?
(a) The feminine mystique keeps both sexes from maturing.
(b) Sexual satisfaction is not a mark of fulfillment.
(c) All of these.
(d) Neither sex can be happy within the feminine mystique.

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

10. What do women seek in their men?
(a) Trust.
(b) Sex.
(c) Security.
(d) Marriage.

11. How many women did Maslow find actually fulfilled their selves in the sense of a dominant feeling?
(a) Five.
(b) Two.
(c) Three.
(d) Eight.

12. What did Mrs. Friedan decide to go looking for in this chapter?
(a) Balanced housewives.
(b) Fulfilled housewifes.
(c) True housewives.
(d) Career women.

13. What should be the goal of every normal woman?
(a) "The art of good homemaking".
(b) "The art of being a great housewife".
(c) "To be an independent buyer".
(d) "To shop unscrupulously".

14. What reason is not given for women who possess a low dominance personality in regards to leadership?
(a) They feel incompetent.
(b) They are afriad of responsibility.
(c) They don't want to be at the forefront of anything.
(d) They don't believe its possible to be a woman and lead.

15. Women who finished a professional education were more likely to reach ______________.
(a) Orgasm.
(b) Marital fulfillment.
(c) Personal fulfillment.
(d) None of these.

Short Answer Questions

1. Housework was specially suited to what kind of girls?

2. How did the labor saving appliance work?

3. What was interesting to note about women who didn't consider housework their fulltime job?

4. How did women seek to fill the void that their lack of self created?

5. When did Professor Maslow begin his study of the relationship between sexuality and the "dominance" feeling?

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