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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 1980 sex discrimination and other kinds of complaints filed before which agency climbs twenty-five to forty percent?
(a) The EEOC.
(b) No answers are correct.
(c) The ERA.
(d) NOW.

2. In 1989 which Ivy League university commissioned a survey that confirmed the findings of the Fortune magazine research on female MBA students "bailing out"?
(a) Columbia.
(b) Harvard.
(c) Stanford.
(d) Yale.

3. What percentage of younger women feel more akin to NOW than to either political party?
(a) 50 percent.
(b) 83 percent.
(c) 28 percent.
(d) 75 percent.

4. Which of the following terms was coined as a part of the backlash?
(a) Biological clock.
(b) Feminism movement.
(c) Husband shortage.
(d) Mommy syndrome.

5. According to Faludi, male crews comment that there are "too many women" on the job. This is reinforced by management's tendency to which of the following?
(a) All answers are correct.
(b) Blame affirmative action when rejecting male applicants.
(c) Demote men while promoting women.
(d) Show preferential treatment to women in meetings.

Short Answer Questions

1. Beverly LaHaye founds Concerned Women for America (CWA); her husband Tim LaHaye is co-founder of which organization?

2. Christine Craft is demoted for which of the following reasons?

3. Paul Weyrich is defined by Faludi as all the following EXCEPT:

4. Which female executive is quoted as saying she hopes companies can treat "career-and-family women" more leniently than "career-primary" women?

5. Unmarried, childless after forty, hooked on work, a 1970s feminist and the third generation in her family to have a low view of "traditional femininity." This is Faludi's description of which market research trend executive?

(see the answer key)

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