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

2. Where are the chains to the housewives' trap located?
(a) In their own mind and spirit.
(b) Within in the confines of wife and motherhood.
(c) Within the walls of their homes.
(d) In their own relationships with those around them.

3. How did Freud view his soon-to-be wife?
(a) As a child.
(b) Both of these.
(c) None of these.
(d) As an object.

4. What was considered 'real' life?
(a) Career life.
(b) Single life.
(c) Spinsterhood life.
(d) Married life.

5. What had become a trap?
(a) The small-minded image of women.
(b) The disregard of the way women feel.
(c) The lack of personal image in women.
(d) The home life.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Mrs. Freidan question in regards to Freudian thought?

2. How many hours did the average housewife sleep, but still found themselves tired?

3. What doesn't work together to produce femininity?

4. The younger generation was consumed with the only aspiration of ____________________.

5. What is the functionalist's primary concern?

Short Essay Questions

1. What things hold women back from achieving the education they need to be a beneficial part of society?

2. Why did real feminists believe the radical "man hating, marriage opposing" feminists were getting more media coverage?

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

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

5. Why were the girls with rings on their hands the "lucky ones"?

6. What might have happened if women had gone on to continue their education?

7. Who divorced women from the ideas of the world outside of the home?

8. What does a self actualizing relationship look like?

9. What was the basis of all neurosis of people, according to Freud?

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

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