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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do Freud's writings give more credit?
(a) None of these.
(b) To the mature expression of sexual interest.
(c) To the pre-pubescent expression of sexual interest.
(d) To the expression of infantile sexual interest.

2. What was it said that men had that women didn't?
(a) Minds.
(b) The ability to be impassioned.
(c) Penises.
(d) The ability to reason.

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

4. What did Margaret Mead's work persuade women to do?
(a) Pursue an education despite the potential cost of family life.
(b) All of these.
(c) Give up their humanity in exchange for their femininity.
(d) Give up their femininity in exchange for their humanity.

5. Why couldn't Betty read a word of the science that had once almost been her life's calling?
(a) She had no time for the study following kids.
(b) She was angry about giving it up.
(c) She had no interest in it.
(d) It was too painful because she had given it up.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the feminine protest do?

2. How many children did Sojourner Truth claim to have?

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

4. How is the identity of women determined?

5. What problem arises in women who marry first and ask questions later?

Short Essay Questions

1. How were Freud's findings indicative of his social surroundings?

2. How was this preoccupation different than it had been before?

3. How is a self actualizing relationship stronger than one borne in the feminine mystique?

4. What kinds of problems can arise for the woman saying "no" to the feminine mystique?

5. How was Margaret Mead exempt from the lack of fulfillment that most women felt?

6. Why is economic independence so necessary for women?

7. Why was there such difficulty with the problem without a name and why was it so hard to solve?

8. What was the reason for Freud's research and what did he hope to achieve?

9. What sex was responsible for the divorcing of women and the outside world?

10. What were the side effects of the "youth serum" when the young woman aged?

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