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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 early marriage.
(b) Sex and children.
(c) All of these.
(d) Having children.

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

3. 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) 60.55.
(c) 78.35.
(d) 44.57.

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

5. What was blamed for every problem American children faced?
(a) Themselves.
(b) Their fathers.
(c) Their mothers.
(d) Society at large.

6. What does Professor Maslow say about the words "feminine" and "masculine"?
(a) They don't jive with his studies and aren't considered practical.
(b) They are necessary to segregate the sexes.
(c) They are an abbhoration on the human spirit and character.
(d) They are misleading.

7. Women's chances at happiness in marriage _______ as their career participation ________ .
(a) decreased, decreased.
(b) increased, increased.
(c) decreased, increased.
(d) increased, decreased.

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

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

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

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

12. What is the first step in finding oneself as a woman?
(a) To say unequivocally "no" to the feminine mystique.
(b) To answer the question "who am I?".
(c) To seek guidance from others that have gone before you.
(d) To balance home and career.

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

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

15. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the feminists see most clearly?

2. If education has made American women feel trapped, frustrated and guilty as housewives, it is surely a sign that ___________________________.

3. Out of twenty-five women, how many were serious enough to write a resume to improve their lives?

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

5. Newspaper headlines screamed that working mothers were responsible for __________________.

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