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

2. What doesn't work together to produce femininity?
(a) Society.
(b) Deficient female anatomy.
(c) Penis envy.
(d) Parents.

3. How many children did Sojourner Truth claim to have?
(a) Two.
(b) Thirteen.
(c) Six.
(d) Five.

4. What is stressed in a functional education?
(a) Individuality.
(b) Conformity.
(c) Neither of these.
(d) I don't know.

5. What is considered "phallic activity"?
(a) All of these.
(b) None of these.
(c) Holding ones' genitals.
(d) Things that normally pertain to men.

Short Answer Questions

1. What had become a trap?

2. What became a dirty word?

3. Why are the girls at college?

4. What narrow comfort is offered women to become homemakers?

5. What did the degradation of women also denigrate?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What, according to Mrs. Friedan is the leading cause of men seeking out homosexual relationships?

3. How were Freud's findings indicative of his social surroundings?

4. What kinds of problems can arise for the woman saying "no" to the feminine mystique?

5. Why were the girls with rings on their hands the "lucky ones"?

6. What things hold women back from achieving the education they need to be a beneficial part of society?

7. How did sexual interaction at an early age affect development?

8. Why was there such difficulty with the problem without a name and why was it so hard to solve?

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

10. What do the children of vicarious living mothers commonly identify with?

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