The Feminine Mystique Test | Mid-Book Test - Hard

This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 148 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.

The Feminine Mystique Test | Mid-Book Test - Hard

This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 148 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.
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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the degradation of women also denigrate?

2. What silent question did women ask themselves?

3. What is considered "phallic activity"?

4. Why do women have to suffer the problem of identity?

5. What kind of pharmaceuticals were women taking?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the simple truth of fulfillment?

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

3. In summation, why was it that the women went home after winning the suffrage?

4. Summarize Margaret Mead's ideals as shown in this book.

5. What kinds of conventional arrangements were made between women to maintain careers while there was a war?

6. What is considered the feminine role in education?

7. How were the victims of the Holocaust similar to the American housewife?

8. How did American women learn how to free themselves by speaking out for the slaves?

9. What choice did the mystique leave to women?

10. What groups opposed the women's right to vote and why?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Explain the roles that educators play in the feminine mystique. How are they responsible for propagating it, despite believing in equality for women? In what ways are women held back by the educators? Explain the educators guilt. Is this guilt founded on legitimate concerns? Explain your answer.

Essay Topic 2

Suggest ways women might overcome the feminine mystique. What kinds of programs could be offered to women that are serious about continuing their education in a meaningful way? Is there any way to live within the mystique and contribute positively to the world and to self development? Explain.

Essay Topic 3

What kinds of opposition did women face in their movement to gain equal rights? How were they the subject of ridicule and scorn? How were they the butt of public jokes and humiliated? How were they balked? Explain your answer using quotes from the book.

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