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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 name of the life adjustment course given to eleven- to thirteen-year-old girls?
(a) How to Get Married Fast!
(b) The Slick Chick.
(c) The Quick Chick.
(d) How To Date.

2. What gave women peace of mind?
(a) The idea that they were not alone.
(b) The collective feeling that they had achieved something in talking.
(c) Women's husbands.
(d) The answer to the nameless problem.

3. What does the girl from honors history suspect happened to her to cause her to drop out?
(a) She was forced out by male educators.
(b) None of these.
(c) She lost courage.
(d) She wanted to marry.

4. What is Nora, to herself, first and foremost?
(a) A reasonable human being.
(b) None of these.
(c) A bitter wife.
(d) A man hater.

5. Why are the girls at college?
(a) Neither of these.
(b) Both of those.
(c) To get an education.
(d) To fulfill their sexual function.

Short Answer Questions

1. What lesson could girls not help but learn in college between 1945 and 1960?

2. Why wouldn't the final voice on magazine publication allow information that wasn't involved with the home into the magazine?

3. How many hours did the average housewife sleep, but still found themselves tired?

4. What does the feminine protest do?

5. What problem arises in women who marry first and ask questions later?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happened as women who were highly intelligent let go of their interests for the role of wife and mother?

2. What is ironic about the path to feminine fulfillment?

3. Who divorced women from the ideas of the world outside of the home?

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

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

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

7. What groups opposed the women's right to vote and why?

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

9. Why is economic independence so necessary for women?

10. What is the double deception of the feminine mystique?

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