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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How was the cold feeling that women experienced following a fear technique employed by the feminine mystique?
(a) It was a way to keep marriages occurring in post war America.
(b) It was compared to the life career women felt.
(c) None of these.
(d) It was explained that they could feel this in marriage too.

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

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

5. How many women had engaged in extramarital sex?
(a) One in four.
(b) Nine of ten.
(c) Three in four.
(d) Two in four.

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

7. 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.

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

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) A national education program for women who want to seriously continue their education.
(d) None of these.

10. 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) Career women are harder to sell to.
(d) None of these.

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

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

13. When did Professor Maslow begin his study of the relationship between sexuality and the "dominance" feeling?
(a) In the 1930s.
(b) In the 1950s.
(c) In the 1920s.
(d) In the 1940s.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is it harder for orthodox Catholic or Jewish women to break out of the mystique?

2. What is the most powerful perpetuator(s) of the feminine mystique?

3. "______ not _____ is the tie that binds."

4. Which women are more often the sex-seekers than finders?

5. How much of all advertising budget is spent to appeal to women?

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