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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did the labor saving appliance work?
(a) To create an increase in labor due to elaboration.
(b) To decrease the time it took for the modern woman to do things.
(c) By plugging it in.
(d) To increase the functional time of a woman.

2. By what percent did the rate of teenage mothers increase between 1940 and 1957?
(a) 166%.
(b) 120%.
(c) 165%.
(d) 164%.

3. How did the image of sex change?
(a) Men were sexually chasing women.
(b) Women had appetites men couldn't fill.
(c) Men had appetites women couldn't fill.
(d) Women were sexually chasing men.

4. What was really difficult to sell?
(a) Sterling silver.
(b) Gold plated dishes.
(c) Electronics.
(d) Dishwashers.

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

6. What is the scary thing for women who want to finish their education?
(a) That no man will want her.
(b) All of these.
(c) That she will no longer be feminine.
(d) That most men will be married in college.

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

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

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

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

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

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

13. How much greater was the number of disturbed young wives over any other group other than their husbands?
(a) Two times.
(b) Four times.
(c) Five times.
(d) Three times.

14. Which women are more often the sex-seekers than finders?
(a) The rural housewives.
(b) The metropolis housewives.
(c) The city housewives.
(d) The suburban housewives.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the unique characteristic of human existence?

2. Who was always blamed for the neurosis of men?

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

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

5. The strongest sexual pleasures are found in ______ ______ _____ .

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