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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 did all the pioneering feminists resist?
(a) Early marriage.
(b) Marital subservience.
(c) All of these.
(d) Sexual degradation.

2. Why does an educator have to be daring to suggest non-conformity in regards to sex based education?
(a) They have to challenge the conventional image of femininity.
(b) They have to challenge authority.
(c) They have to disagree with the leading psychologists and psychotherapists.
(d) They have to defy conventional educators.

3. What lesson could girls not help but learn in college between 1945 and 1960?
(a) How to cater to your mans needs.
(b) How not to get interested in anything but getting married and having kids.
(c) How to take care of yourself as an individual.
(d) How to take your career seriously.

4. Why wouldn't the final voice on magazine publication allow information that wasn't involved with the home into the magazine?
(a) Women were divorced from the nature of the world outside the home.
(b) Women weren't smart enough to comprehend information that didn't involve the home.
(c) None of these.
(d) Women didn't care for this kind of information.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the important thing for a girl?

2. Why does mankind not completely live in the present?

3. What is a compliment to a woman in the act of creation of a child?

4. What does Parsons find in sexual segregation?

5. What was considered 'real' life?

Short Essay Questions

1. What kinds of conventional arrangements were made between women to maintain careers while there was a war?

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

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

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

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

6. Define high dominance and low dominance feeling.

7. How did the New York General Assembly view the right for women to own property and how did they react to the idea that they should be able to?

8. Why is economic independence so necessary for women?

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

10. What was considered "true feminine fulfillment"?

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