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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3, The Crisis of Woman's Identity.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was so terrifying to women not about to be married?
(a) Not knowing what they were going to do with their lives.
(b) Being childless and alone.
(c) Knowing they will never achieve their goals.
(d) Not fitting in with social requirements.

2. What was the new sexual problem in marriages?
(a) The women found themselves frigid and unable to be aroused.
(b) The women had no sexual appetite.
(c) The women had a desire to have more and more children.
(d) The women had more of an appetite than their men could satisfy.

3. What did most of the people who studied the 'discontinuity' of women say it was caused by?
(a) All of these.
(b) Believing that they have the same potential as boys.
(c) Education.
(d) Testing their own powers in the world.

4. "The problem for women today is not ______, but a problem of _______?
(a) Sexual, Education.
(b) Sexual, Identity.
(c) Education, Identity.
(d) Identity, Sexual.

5. Which women were happiest?
(a) Uneducated women.
(b) Married women.
(c) Unmarried women.
(d) Educated women.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is a compliment to a woman in the act of creation of a child?

2. What kind of pharmaceuticals were women taking?

3. What is the climax of adolescence?

4. Why couldn't women study physics?

5. Why do women participate in politics according to "Women's Home Companion" September 1955?

(see the answer key)

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