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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Housework was specially suited to what kind of girls?
(a) Able-minded girls.
(b) Attractive girls.
(c) Feeble-minded girls.
(d) Intelligent girls.

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

3. 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) The feminine mystique is ingrained into their religion.
(c) None of these.
(d) Women are expected to participate in church functions.

4. By what percent did the rate of teenage mothers increase between 1940 and 1957?
(a) 164%.
(b) 120%.
(c) 165%.
(d) 166%.

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

6. 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

13. What is contrary to the feminine mystique?
(a) Neither sex can be happy within the feminine mystique.
(b) All of these.
(c) The feminine mystique keeps both sexes from maturing.
(d) Sexual satisfaction is not a mark of fulfillment.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What was really difficult to sell?

3. What was wrong with children?

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

5. How was the young housewife supposed to spend money and not feel guilty about it?

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