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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Women must learn to compete not as female but as ______.
(a) Humans.
(b) Society.
(c) Friends.
(d) Males.

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

3. How many women had engaged in extramarital sex?
(a) Nine of ten.
(b) One in four.
(c) Three in four.
(d) Two in four.

4. Wives became __________________.
(a) Experts.
(b) All of these.
(c) Know it alls.
(d) Complete dominators of the household activities.

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

7. What was wrong with children?
(a) They all sleepwalked.
(b) They lacked fire.
(c) They were going through their lives without passion or direction.
(d) They were following the feminine mystique to the letter.

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

9. What are considered "mutations"?
(a) Men wanting to be housewives.
(b) All of these.
(c) Women who pursue careers despite their handicap of gender.
(d) Asexual woman.

10. The strongest sexual pleasures are found in ______ ______ _____ .
(a) Self-actualizing people.
(b) Homes and workforce.
(c) Self-debasing people.
(d) School and self-realization.

11. What occurred in the last decade?
(a) An increase in preoccupation with sex.
(b) An increase in sexual activity.
(c) Both of these.
(d) Neither of these.

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

13. 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 misleading.
(d) They are an abbhoration on the human spirit and character.

14. Why is the "Career Woman" not a good market to sell to?
(a) She doesn't care about promotions.
(b) She has no time to shop.
(c) She isn't interested and has housekeepers.
(d) She is harder to sell to.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. "______ not _____ is the tie that binds."

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

4. What did the feminists see most clearly?

5. What year was the survey published for electrical appliances?

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