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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Newspaper headlines screamed that working mothers were responsible for __________________.
(a) Juvenile delinquency.
(b) Neither of these.
(c) Both of these.
(d) Molly coddling their children.

2. What is the simple definition of the problem that has no name?
(a) The possibility of work outside the home.
(b) The lack of work outside the home for housewives.
(c) The lack of educational facilities outside the home for housewives.
(d) American woman are kept from realizing their potential.

3. 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.

4. What is the really crucial role of the housewife?
(a) To buy more things for the house.
(b) To raise children.
(c) To be a good wife.
(d) All of these.

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

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

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

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

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

10. What is the only frontier available to women that have lived always within the confines of the feminine mystique?
(a) Love.
(b) None of these.
(c) Sex.
(d) Marriage.

11. Housework presents _______________.
(a) An interesting job description for American women.
(b) I don't know.
(c) No difficulty to the adult mind.
(d) A significant challenge.

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

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

14. In 1948, what was the percentage of men that had had some homosexual experience?
(a) Twenty-eight.
(b) Thirty-eight.
(c) Thirty-seven.
(d) Twenty-two.

15. 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 misleading.
(c) They are an abbhoration on the human spirit and character.
(d) They are necessary to segregate the sexes.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many hours a week did a housewife who lived in a city of over 100,000 work in the home?

2. Women must learn to compete not as female but as ______.

3. Housework was specially suited to what kind of girls?

4. What sparked the White House's interest?

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

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