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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What was the only thing that these kids looked for?
(a) None of these.
(b) Studies.
(c) Kicks.
(d) Work.

4. What was interesting to note about women who didn't consider housework their fulltime job?
(a) They didn't do as much housework as those that did.
(b) They didn't undergo extensive psychotherapy.
(c) They completed it faster than those that did.
(d) They seemed a lot more fulfilled.

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

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

7. What is the second step in finding oneself as a woman?
(a) To realize that the road isn't easy, but it is rewarding.
(b) To realize marriage is over glorified by the feminine mystique.
(c) None of these.
(d) To understand that you will face scrutiny of your peers.

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

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

10. What reason is not given for women who possess a low dominance personality in regards to leadership?
(a) They are afriad of responsibility.
(b) They feel incompetent.
(c) They don't want to be at the forefront of anything.
(d) They don't believe its possible to be a woman and lead.

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

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

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

14. How did Andras Angyal describe this weakness?
(a) None of these.
(b) A social evasion of growth.
(c) A psychotic evasion of growth,
(d) A neurotic evasion of growth.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which mothers were more sure of themselves?

2. What is the key problem in promiscuity?

3. What is the key to getting out of the trap of the mystique?

4. What is the scary thing for women who want to finish their education?

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

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