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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 is the problem with educating women early to fulfill their sexual roles in regards to the opposite sex?

2. What became a dirty word?

3. Margaret Mead frequently _______ herself.

4. What problem arises in women who marry first and ask questions later?

5. Why couldn't women study physics?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why were the girls with rings on their hands the "lucky ones"?

2. In what way did society have to be restructured regarding sexuality?

3. Explain the passage from MARRIAGE FOR MODERNS.

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

5. What is the choice that women face?

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How do Freud and Margaret Mead's study of women influence the development of the feminine mystique? What role do these individuals play in the education of women in regards to the mystique? How do their views compliment each other? Explain your answer and support it with research from outside the book.

Essay Topic 2

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.

Essay Topic 3

Compare and contrast the women that pursued a career and self realization, to those who went to college strictly to find a husband, get married and have children. How do they differ in personal growth? How does society of that era view both women? Explain the difference in their marriages. Use quotes from the book.

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