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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. The younger generation was consumed with the only aspiration of ____________________.

2. What does Mrs. Freidan question in regards to Freudian thought?

3. What did all the pioneering feminists resist?

4. Where are the chains to the housewives' trap located?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What was considered "true feminine fulfillment"?

2. How is a definitive knowledge of self needed to mature?

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

4. How is a self actualizing relationship stronger than one borne in the feminine mystique?

5. How did sexual interaction at an early age affect development?

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

7. Why was there such difficulty with the problem without a name and why was it so hard to solve?

8. What choice did the mystique leave to women?

9. What were the side effects of the "youth serum" when the young woman aged?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What kinds of opposition did women face in their movement to gain equal rights? How were they the subject of ridicule and scorn? How were they the butt of public jokes and humiliated? How were they balked? Explain your answer using quotes from the book.

Essay Topic 2

How did Mrs. Friedan practice what she preached? How was she an equal victim of the discrimination against women, and what private battles did she herself face in the years following the publishing of the "Feminine Mystique"?

Essay Topic 3

Hypothesize on the outcome of society at large if the women continued living purely within the confines of femininity? How would it affect the population two generations further? Three? Would it make American society stronger or weaker to have that increased level of devotion in the household? Explain your answer using quotes from the book.

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