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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What year was the survey published for electrical appliances?
(a) 1942.
(b) 1940.
(c) 1944.
(d) 1945.

3. What does "acting out" mean in psycho-therapeutic terms?
(a) Behavior that is contrary to what is desireable.
(b) Behavior that is emulated by the parents.
(c) Delinquent behavior.
(d) Behavior that is not in accordance with reality.

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

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

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

7. How much of all advertising budget is spent to appeal to women?
(a) Seventy-five.
(b) Eighty.
(c) Seventy.
(d) Ninety.

8. 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.

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

10. How do women find enjoyment in being a woman?
(a) All of these.
(b) They stop conforming to the image of femininty.
(c) They stop listening to their parents speaking for them.
(d) They decide that their lives as an individual are far more important.

11. What did Mrs. Friedan decide to go looking for in this chapter?
(a) True housewives.
(b) Career women.
(c) Balanced housewives.
(d) Fulfilled housewifes.

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

13. What drains away the needs that cannot really be filled by the home and family?
(a) The working to pay bills.
(b) The saving of money.
(c) The buying of things.
(d) The spending of money.

14. What clinic for children did Mrs. Freidan visit?
(a) The Jackson James Center in Boston.
(b) The James Jackson Putnam Childrens Center in Boston.
(c) The Putnam Jackson Childrens Center in Boston.
(d) The Jackson James Putnam Childrens Center in Boston.

15. In the name of femininity women are encouraged to ______ human growth.
(a) Supercede.
(b) Decrease.
(c) Evade.
(d) Pursue.

Short Answer Questions

1. In 1948, what was the percentage of men that had had some homosexual experience?

2. How did the image of sex change?

3. What is characteristic of underdeveloped nations?

4. How did women seek to fill the void that their lack of self created?

5. What was blamed for every problem American children faced?

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