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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. How were women martyred during hunger strikes?
(a) They were flogged and beaten.
(b) They were forcibly fed.
(c) They were killed.
(d) They were starved to death.

2. What was interesting to note about women who didn't consider housework their fulltime job?
(a) They didn't undergo extensive psychotherapy.
(b) They seemed a lot more fulfilled.
(c) They completed it faster than those that did.
(d) They didn't do as much housework as those that did.

3. What does Marriage for Moderns say about women and their roles?
(a) They are inferior to men.
(b) They are in excess of men.
(c) They are complimentary to men.
(d) They are superior to men.

4. What is the problem with educating women early to fulfill their sexual roles in regards to the opposite sex?
(a) Their men can't achieve their full potentials.
(b) Their children only have one role.
(c) Their relationships are doomed to suffocate.
(d) All of these.

5. What gave women peace of mind?
(a) The collective feeling that they had achieved something in talking.
(b) Women's husbands.
(c) The answer to the nameless problem.
(d) The idea that they were not alone.

Short Answer Questions

1. Housework presents _______________.

2. What did Margaret Mead's work persuade women to do?

3. What narrow comfort is offered women to become homemakers?

4. Newspaper headlines screamed that working mothers were responsible for __________________.

5. What should an education do?

(see the answer key)

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