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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 is necessary for the women to be happy in their lives, according to Mirra?
(a) They must reproduce.
(b) They must remain infantile.
(c) They must embrace their role as women.
(d) They must find themselves first.

2. What is unlikely to happen without education?
(a) All of these.
(b) Women are likely to have children at younger ages.
(c) Women are likely to marry younger and younger.
(d) Women are not likely to develop deep interests outside their biology.

3. Which women were happiest?
(a) Educated women.
(b) Unmarried women.
(c) Married women.
(d) Uneducated women.

4. Why do women participate in politics according to "Women's Home Companion" September 1955?
(a) Politics is a topic for which both parties can share.
(b) It concerns their home and husband.
(c) They pay attention to political parties.
(d) They desire change in government.

5. What does Marriage for Moderns say about women and their roles?
(a) They are complimentary to men.
(b) They are inferior to men.
(c) They are in excess of men.
(d) They are superior to men.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many children did Sojourner Truth claim to have?

2. How much money did the magazine offer to those who submit their problems to promote it?

3. What did most of the people who studied the 'discontinuity' of women say it was caused by?

4. What is the functionalist's primary concern?

5. Why do women have to suffer the problem of identity?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why did women lavish so much attention on their children?

2. What choice did the mystique leave to women?

3. Why is economic independence so necessary for women?

4. What specifically made the image change of women possible?

5. How did American women learn how to free themselves by speaking out for the slaves?

6. What is the simple truth of fulfillment?

7. In summation, why was it that the women went home after winning the suffrage?

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

9. Define "Feminine protest".

10. Why did real feminists believe the radical "man hating, marriage opposing" feminists were getting more media coverage?

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