This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 12, Progressive Dehumanization: The Comfortable Concentration Camp.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who was always blamed for the neurosis of men?
(a) Their sisters and brothers.
(b) Their jobs and careers.
(c) Their education and ambitions.
(d) Their mothers and wives.

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

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

4. What was the problem with the vast majority of men and boys born to mothers enthralled in the mystique?
(a) They never grew up.
(b) All of these.
(c) They were unfit for duty on the front or as husbands.
(d) They were forever likely to take on neurosis.

5. What two things are at the very heart of the feminine mystique?
(a) Lack of self and vicarious living.
(b) Noncommitment and lack of self.
(c) Deception and lack of self.
(d) Noncommitment and vicarious living.