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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 3: Chapter 11.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Faludi makes the point that most women who go mad in 1970s films are repressed and neglected housewives. According to the author, these women do all of the following except what?
(a) Go to other women for advice.
(b) Hear that they should enjoy themselves.
(c) Turn to male doctors.
(d) Hear that they should take action and speak up.

2. ***Poet Robert Bly speaks to mostly all-male audiences about healthier views of masculinity in the time of all of the following EXCEPT:
(a) The Odyssey.
(b) Norsemen.
(c) The Iliad.
(d) Viking Power.

3. Faludi identified which of the following books as the most widely quoted and influential feminist work in the 1980s?
(a) Ms. Still.
(b) Sexual Personae.
(c) In a Different Voice.
(d) Sex and Destiny.

4. In the American version of the French film Three Men and a Baby, what significant change is made to the story line?
(a) It has the men raising one baby rather than twins.
(b) It makes all of the men happy to have a baby to take raise.
(c) It includes the remorseful mother returning to take care of the baby and marry one of the fathers.
(d) It adds a dour lawyer, Rebecca, who lacks both maternal and romantic "juices."

5. As the health care industry continues to convince women they need medical attention, the market increases for which of these services?
(a) Diet clinics.
(b) Colon cleansing.
(c) No answers are correct.
(d) Chemotherapy.

Short Answer Questions

1. Victoria Secret was intended to be the:

2. Which backlash proponent calls himself "America's Number-One Anti-feminist"?

3. In Angels 88 screenwriter Brad Markowitz has been ordered to do all of the following except:

4. In 1987, what does NBC identify as the possible "yuppie disease of the '80s"?

5. Which book provides the "devastating" statistics that there is a seventy-three percent decline in a woman's standard of living during the first year after divorce versus a man's forty-seven percent increase?

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