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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the literature offered telling women to do?
(a) To reproduce and be happy.
(b) To seek fulfillment as wives and mothers.
(c) That their husbands rule all, and a womans' place is in the house.
(d) Where their role in society was.

2. What was the only answer possible in Freudian logic to make women satisfied?
(a) Much more sex, and that they need to make more babies.
(b) Education, freedom and rights are wrong for women.
(c) Beatification procedures.
(d) Weekly "Womens' meetings".

3. What is the first age that the crisis hits?
(a) Twenty-one.
(b) Twenty-five.
(c) Eighteen.
(d) Forty-one.

4. What instrument did men in Bali use?
(a) Their voices.
(b) Xylophones.
(c) A flute.
(d) Drums.

5. What kind of pharmaceuticals were women taking?
(a) Laxatives.
(b) Tranquilizers.
(c) Sleeping pills.
(d) Mood elevators.

Short Answer Questions

1. What became a dirty word?

2. What was women's unhappiness blamed on?

3. Which statement best fits the main problem?

4. What gave women peace of mind?

5. What is Nora, to herself, first and foremost?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was the basis of all neurosis of people, according to Freud?

2. Why was it advisable for advertisers to not let the "Career Women" category get any larger?

3. What is called the "youth serum" for women?

4. What sex was responsible for the divorcing of women and the outside world?

5. Explain how within the feminine mystique, to be exceptional, has such a negative connotation?

6. Why did sex become the preoccupation of American women?

7. Define "Feminine protest".

8. How were the victims of the Holocaust similar to the American housewife?

9. How does a woman fulfill her psychological and sociological roles by being a shopper?

10. How did the image of women change from the 1930's-50's?

(see the answer keys)

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