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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6, The Functional Freeze, the Feminine Protest, and Margaret Mead.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What did all the pioneering feminists resist?
(a) Sexual degradation.
(b) All of these.
(c) Marital subservience.
(d) Early marriage.

3. What is a compliment to a woman in the act of creation of a child?
(a) Breastfeeding.
(b) Rearing the child.
(c) Maternal instinct.
(d) The desire to protect the home.

4. Why couldn't women study physics?
(a) It was considered unfeminine.
(b) They didn't want to study it.
(c) They weren't allowed in the classes.
(d) They didn't have the aptitude for it.

5. What is considered "phallic activity"?
(a) Things that normally pertain to men.
(b) None of these.
(c) Holding ones' genitals.
(d) All of these.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How is the identity of women determined?

3. Which tribe do men and women assume masculine roles?

4. What happened following Margaret's work?

5. How long did it take "Sarah and the Seaplane" to become "Sarah the Sandwich Maker"?

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