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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which women are more often the sex-seekers than finders?
(a) The metropolis housewives.
(b) The rural housewives.
(c) The city housewives.
(d) The suburban housewives.

2. How was the cold feeling that women experienced following a fear technique employed by the feminine mystique?
(a) None of these.
(b) It was a way to keep marriages occurring in post war America.
(c) It was compared to the life career women felt.
(d) It was explained that they could feel this in marriage too.

3. What was wrong with children?
(a) They all sleepwalked.
(b) They were going through their lives without passion or direction.
(c) They were following the feminine mystique to the letter.
(d) They lacked fire.

4. What is the most powerful perpetuator(s) of the feminine mystique?
(a) Their clients.
(b) The women themselves.
(c) The manipulators.
(d) The manipulators and their clients.

5. What was interesting to note about women who didn't consider housework their fulltime job?
(a) They completed it faster than those that did.
(b) They didn't undergo extensive psychotherapy.
(c) They didn't do as much housework as those that did.
(d) They seemed a lot more fulfilled.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the most powerful argument of the feminine mystique?

2. What was the only thing that these kids looked for?

3. What was interesting about the lives of all of the women within the mystique?

4. What have psychiatrists used to cure neurosis in the past?

5. What occurred in the last decade?

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