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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Gail do to harm herself?
(a) She burns herself with cigarettes
(b) She cuts herself on the breasts
(c) She attempts suicide
(d) She takes pills

2. What does Dr. Pipher list as the defining characteristic for American women?
(a) Personality
(b) Weight
(c) Beauty
(d) Love

3. How do highly gifted girls react to world events?
(a) They react by acting out in inappropriate ways
(b) They react with emotional maturity
(c) They react with the intensity of a child
(d) They react by cutting themselves

4. How many types of sex education does Dr. Pipher believe girls receive?
(a) 4
(b) 1
(c) 3
(d) 2

5. Which type of girl is usually a perfectionist?
(a) Bulimics
(b) Anorexics
(c) Type A personalities
(d) Alcoholics

6. What was abundant during the 1950s?
(a) Drugs
(b) Cigarettes
(c) Divorce
(d) Alcohol

7. What does Dr. Pipher note about many female leaders?
(a) They are isolated as adolescents
(b) They are often unhappy
(c) They acknowledge gender limitations
(d) They are not strong adolescents

8. On what are girls who are at high-risk of developing an eating disorder basing their identities?
(a) Success
(b) High pressure sports
(c) Being thin
(d) Parental pressures

9. What does Dr. Pipher show girls they are able to cope with?
(a) Assault
(b) Uncertainity
(c) Pain
(d) Resignation

10. Why are alcohol and marijuana popular with teenage girls?
(a) They want to expanded awareness
(b) It is a quick way to feel good
(c) They want to increase sensitivity and insight
(d) They want to lose weight

11. What does Dr. Pipher encourage her patients to do in regards to their feelings?
(a) Explain
(b) Resign
(c) Objectify
(d) Evaluate

12. Which of the following professions is not at high risk for developing bulimia?
(a) Models
(b) Teachers
(c) Dancers
(d) Gymnasts

13. According to Dr. Pipher families raise their daughters to be whole, but the media reduces them to which of the following?
(a) Nothings
(b) Objects
(c) Sexual beings
(d) Bodies

14. Which of the following isn't one of the things Dr. Pipher believes athletic skills give to girls?
(a) It gives them peer groups
(b) It gives them cooperative skills
(c) It gives them confidence
(d) It gives them limited growth

15. Even with all of the information available about sexual encounters, what does Dr. Pipher say is still missing?
(a) That it is okay to say no to sex
(b) Information on sexually transmitted diseases
(c) Abstinence education
(d) What a healthy sexual experience looks like

Short Answer Questions

1. What percentage of teens believe that a man has the right to force his wife to have sex?

2. At what age did Dr. Pipher see her first television show?

3. Where does Dr. Pipher feel the blame for many of the problems lies?

4. What career was Dr. Pipher pushed toward by her teachers in school?

5. About what percentage of women will be battered at some point in their lives?

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