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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 find themselves first.
(d) They must embrace their role as women.

2. What is the problem with educating women early to fulfill their sexual roles in regards to the opposite sex?
(a) Their men can't achieve their full potentials.
(b) Their relationships are doomed to suffocate.
(c) All of these.
(d) Their children only have one role.

3. With which did the feminist movement gain strength?
(a) The movement to free the slaves.
(b) The Revolution.
(c) The emancipation of American from the British throne.
(d) None of these.

4. What problem arises in women who marry first and ask questions later?
(a) They don't know who they are, and their role in the world.
(b) They never grow up.
(c) All of these.
(d) They have nothing to be impassioned about.

5. What did most of the people who studied the 'discontinuity' of women say it was caused by?
(a) All of these.
(b) Education.
(c) Testing their own powers in the world.
(d) Believing that they have the same potential as boys.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What terrifies the seventeen-year-old girl?

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

4. What was so terrifying to women not about to be married?

5. Why couldn't Betty read a word of the science that had once almost been her life's calling?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What choice did the mystique leave to women?

5. What is the choice that women face?

6. What is the difference between when a man works at home and when a woman works at home?

7. Why must Freud's psychoanalytical views be discounted?

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

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

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

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