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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 did the degradation of women also denigrate?
2. What was not a part of women's worlds?
3. What did Margaret Mead's work persuade women to do?
4. Why do women participate in politics according to "Women's Home Companion" September 1955?
5. What problem wasn't caused by soap or cured by Cortisone?
Short Essay Questions
1. What kinds of problems can arise for the woman saying "no" to the feminine mystique?
2. What happened as women who were highly intelligent let go of their interests for the role of wife and mother?
3. Why must Freud's psychoanalytical views be discounted?
4. What is considered the feminine role in education?
5. What was the reason for Freud's research and what did he hope to achieve?
6. What is the objective of making homemaking creative?
7. What is the double deception of the feminine mystique?
8. How did sexual interaction at an early age affect development?
9. Why did sex become the preoccupation of American women?
10. How is a self actualizing relationship stronger than one borne in the feminine mystique?
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
What are the subtle ways that the feminine mystique still exists in modern society? In which ways is it not so subtle? Who is to blame for the present view of women in society? Why is this?
Essay Topic 3
Why is education integral to the destruction of the feminine mystique? What role does education play in the growing up of American women? How does this benefit America at the macro level? At the micro level? Explain.
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