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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 terrifies the seventeen-year-old girl?

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

3. How is spinsterhood viewed?

4. What was the new sexual problem in marriages?

5. How is the identity of women determined?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did the men do to defy the "masculine mystique"?

2. Summarize Margaret Mead's ideals as shown in this book.

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

4. What things hold women back from achieving the education they need to be a beneficial part of society?

5. Explain the passage from MARRIAGE FOR MODERNS.

6. What is the American housewife's dilemma?

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

8. What is called the "youth serum" for women?

9. Why must Freud's psychoanalytical views be discounted?

10. What kinds of problems can arise for the woman saying "no" to the feminine mystique?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How were men equally a part of a "masculine mystique" during the years of the Vietnam war? What kind of roles did the men play during this time, and what were they told was the full extent of masculinity? How did they oppose the masculine mystique, and what kinds of pressure did they face in response to their movement?

Essay Topic 2

Explain the social propaganda around the feminine mystique. How has married life been glorified and glamorized? Why has it been made to be more than it is? What is the benefit to women staying at home, from an economic standpoint. Explain your answer using quotes from the book.

Essay Topic 3

Name at least three things that stand in the way of women's self realization. How do these things impede her progress? How can they be overcome? Are they legitimate things that hold her back, or are they imagined? Explain your answer and use quotes from the book.

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