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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 4: Chapter 13.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In 1987, what does NBC identify as the possible "yuppie disease of the '80s"?
(a) HIV.
(b) Financial competition between husbands and wives.
(c) The high divorce rates.
(d) The surge in infertility.

2. Which of the following network replacements is not accurate?
(a) Kathleen Sullivan is replaced by Paula Zahn.
(b) Kathleen Sullivan is replaced by Jane Pauley.
(c) Deborah Norville is replaced by Katie Couric.
(d) Jane Pauley is replaced by Deborah Norville.

3. Newsweek uses the metaphor that women are "______ ________ to be killed by a terrorist" than to _________.
(a) Less likely, marry.
(b) More likely, marry.
(c) Less likely, divorce.
(d) More likely, divorce.

4. In the late 1980s, circulation of traditional women's magazines is down sharply with Good Housekeeping the worst off and Working Woman the best off. To what does Faludi attribute the relative success of Working Woman?
(a) Executives at Working Woman focus on traditional female roles, which is what readers want.
(b) Working Woman has a better system of distribution.
(c) Surveys show that Working Woman has many more loyal readers.
(d) The magazine is concentrating on career women's needs.

5. By ignoring women's issues in his acceptance speech, which presidential candidate sees his twenty-four percent gender gap decease to only eight percent by Election Day?
(a) Jimmy Carter.
(b) George Bush.
(c) Ronald Reagan.
(d) Michael Dukakis.

Short Answer Questions

1. The federal "reductions in force" hit women over which level twice as badly as men?

2. In coining the term "cocooning," Faith Popcorn was seeking to do what according to Faludi?

3. In the 1980s, Faludi makes the point that women are marginalized and can ask for childcare and parental leave only if they forego seeking all of the following except:

4. Which organization's findings do not support the idea of a "baby boomlet" among career women?

5. In the summer following the 1988 election, which women's organization held a conference at which a motion passes to discuss a third political party?

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