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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. How were women martyred during hunger strikes?

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

4. What instrument did men in Bali use?

5. What lesson could girls not help but learn in college between 1945 and 1960?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is economic independence so necessary for women?

2. According to the media, why should an American housewife be happy with her lot?

3. What did the men do to defy the "masculine mystique"?

4. What is called the "youth serum" for women?

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

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

7. Why did most women think there was something wrong with them?

8. How did the New York General Assembly view the right for women to own property and how did they react to the idea that they should be able to?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Explain the feminine mystique and the problem with no name. How are they related? How are they almost interchangeable? In what regard to women face the most scrutiny in finding themselves? Explain your answer using quotes from the book.

Essay Topic 2

Explain the social propaganda around the feminine mystique. How has married life been glorified and glamorized? Why has it been made to be more than it is? What is the benefit to women staying at home, from an economic standpoint. Explain your answer using quotes from the book.

Essay Topic 3

Compare and contrast the women that pursued a career and self realization, to those who went to college strictly to find a husband, get married and have children. How do they differ in personal growth? How does society of that era view both women? Explain the difference in their marriages. Use quotes from the book.

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