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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the girl from honors history suspect happened to her to cause her to drop out?

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

3. What was the literature offered telling women to do?

4. What is stressed in a functional education?

5. Margaret Mead frequently _______ herself.

Short Essay Questions

1. How was Margaret Mead exempt from the lack of fulfillment that most women felt?

2. How was this preoccupation different than it had been before?

3. What might have happened if women had gone on to continue their education?

4. Explain the passage from MARRIAGE FOR MODERNS.

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

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

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

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

9. What was the reason for Freud's research and what did he hope to achieve?

10. What is the choice that women face?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Explain the feminine mystique and the problem with no name. How are they related? How are they almost interchangeable? In what regard to women face the most scrutiny in finding themselves? Explain your answer using quotes from the book.

Essay Topic 2

Suggest ways women might overcome the feminine mystique. What kinds of programs could be offered to women that are serious about continuing their education in a meaningful way? Is there any way to live within the mystique and contribute positively to the world and to self development? Explain.

Essay Topic 3

In what regard are children dependent on Mother's influence? How are they independent of it? Explain the perpetual infantile state and the stunting of emotional growth in the terms of the feminine mystique.

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