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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 climax of adolescence?
(a) Having children.
(b) Getting married and having kids.
(c) Enrolling in university.
(d) Deciding what one wants to be.

2. What is the important thing for a girl?
(a) To trap a man.
(b) To be popular.
(c) To be understood.
(d) To pursue her identity.

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

4. Why couldn't Betty read a word of the science that had once almost been her life's calling?
(a) She had no interest in it.
(b) She was angry about giving it up.
(c) It was too painful because she had given it up.
(d) She had no time for the study following kids.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What should an education do?

2. What does Marriage for Moderns say about women and their roles?

3. What was the only answer possible in Freudian logic to make women satisfied?

4. What became a dirty word?

5. How was the career driven woman vanquished from the population?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the difference in the male and female roles?

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

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

4. What is the objective of making homemaking creative?

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

6. What is the American housewife's dilemma?

7. What is the choice that women face?

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

9. Summarize Margaret Mead's ideals as shown in this book.

10. Define high dominance and low dominance feeling.

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