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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who first formulated the simple principle that "work expands to fill the time available"?
(a) P. Northcote Parkinson.
(b) C. Northcote Parkinson.
(c) C Northcote Parkinton.
(d) C. Northcoat Parkinson.

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

3. What was the only thing that these kids looked for?
(a) Kicks.
(b) Work.
(c) None of these.
(d) Studies.

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) The ability to transpose past in to
(c) The ability to see ones experience in the past and future.
(d) All of these.

5. Housework was specially suited to what kind of girls?
(a) Feeble-minded girls.
(b) Able-minded girls.
(c) Intelligent girls.
(d) Attractive girls.

6. In a Rorschach test, a majority of animal images over human images is indicative of ___________________.
(a) Immaturity.
(b) Infancy.
(c) Sexual promiscuity.
(d) Maturity.

7. The most challenging and time consuming tasks of housework can be handled in capacity by a(n) ______________.
(a) Nine-year-old child.
(b) Eleven-year-old child.
(c) Highly intelligent woman.
(d) Eight-year-old child.

8. 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 shop unscrupulously".
(d) "To be an independent buyer".

9. What must women do to avoid the dehumanization of their children?
(a) Cling to their husbands.
(b) Grow up and have interests outside of being a wife and mother.
(c) Cling more to their children.
(d) Live deeper within the feminine mystique.

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

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

12. Why is it harder for orthodox Catholic or Jewish women to break out of the mystique?
(a) None of these.
(b) Women are expected to participate in church functions.
(c) Their clergy do not approve of working mothers.
(d) The feminine mystique is ingrained into their religion.

13. What is the key to getting out of the trap of the mystique?
(a) Determination.
(b) Education.
(c) Courage.
(d) Devotion.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What drains away the needs that cannot really be filled by the home and family?

2. How did the image of sex change?

3. How many women had engaged in extramarital sex?

4. Who wrote the famous study in maternal overprotection?

5. What is characteristic of underdeveloped nations?

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