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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 10, Housewifery Expands to Fill the Time Available.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What became a dirty word?
(a) Career woman.
(b) Free thinking woman.
(c) Opinionated woman.
(d) Working woman.

2. What is the "great mistake of Western Culture"?
(a) The availability of an education to women.
(b) The undervaluation of femininity.
(c) The availability of work to women.
(d) The overemphasis on femininity.

3. What did the degradation of women also denigrate?
(a) Love.
(b) Marriage.
(c) All relations between men and women.
(d) All of these.

4. What does Mrs. Freidan question in regards to Freudian thought?
(a) Its use.
(b) Its therapy.
(c) Its truth.
(d) It's practicality.

5. How much money did the magazine offer to those who submit their problems to promote it?
(a) $300.
(b) $500.
(c) $250.
(d) $50.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Freud believe that all neurosis stemmed from?

2. Why are the girls at college?

3. What was really difficult to sell?

4. What was the literature offered telling women to do?

5. What was the common thread between all the women that Mrs. Friedan interviewed?

(see the answer key)

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