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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What percentage of ulcer patients is comprised of women?
(a) Forty.
(b) Ten.
(c) Thirty.
(d) Twenty.

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

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

4. Who was always blamed for the neurosis of men?
(a) Their education and ambitions.
(b) Their jobs and careers.
(c) Their mothers and wives.
(d) Their sisters and brothers.

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

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

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

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

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

10. What sparked the White House's interest?
(a) A rise in juvinile delinquency.
(b) Muscular deterioration.
(c) A rise in violent crime.
(d) A rise in political instability.

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

12. What is the most powerful argument of the feminine mystique?
(a) That the woman may lose her fertility if she works outside of the home.
(b) All of these.
(c) That the woman will be less of a woman if she doesn't stay at home.
(d) That the woman rejects her husband and children if she doesn't stay at home.

13. What is the key to getting out of the trap of the mystique?
(a) Education.
(b) Determination.
(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) A co-operative union of housewives to fund the return to education.
(c) None of these.
(d) The installation of some courage into the average American housewives.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What have psychiatrists used to cure neurosis in the past?

2. In the name of femininity women are encouraged to ______ human growth.

3. What does Professor Maslow say about the words "feminine" and "masculine"?

4. What did Mrs. Friedan decide to go looking for in this chapter?

5. What was interesting about the lives of all of the women within the mystique?

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