27. Document Projects for Exploring American Histories, Document Project 27: Women’s Liberation

**Quiz for Document 27.4: Pat Mainardi, The Politics of Housework (1970)**

Quiz for Document 27.4: Pat Mainardi, The Politics of Housework (1970)

Select the best answer for each question. Click the “submit” button for each question to turn in your work.

1. In Pat Mainardi’s satire, which of the following is a recurring theme regarding the excuses men give to avoid housework?

Women are better at housework than men are.

Men dislike housework more than women do.

Men view housework as beneath them.

Women do housework the way it should be done.

2. On what point does Pat Mainardi suggest she and her husband agree about housework?

Housework is women’s work.

Housework should be divided between men and women.

Housework is inescapable.

Housework is boring but necessary.

3. Which of the following slogans advanced by the women’s liberation movement summarizes the major point of Pat Mainardi’s article about housework?

The personal is political.

A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.

Women belong in the house . . . and in the Senate!

Women are all female impersonators to some degree.

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