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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. How many children did Sojourner Truth claim to have?

2. Why do women have to suffer the problem of identity?

3. If a woman were to fight for her rights, she would _____ _____?

4. Why does an educator have to be daring to suggest non-conformity in regards to sex based education?

5. What happened following Margaret's work?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What uniformly happened to the population of America following the war?

3. How did American women learn how to free themselves by speaking out for the slaves?

4. What does a self actualizing relationship look like?

5. What choice did the mystique leave to women?

6. What was considered "true feminine fulfillment"?

7. How were Freud's findings indicative of his social surroundings?

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

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

10. What specifically made the image change of women possible?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

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.

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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