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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. Which of the following women is cited in the book as being consistently shut out of the Emmys, disapproved of in public by George Bush, and having a nationwide club formed just to hate and revile her?
(a) Mae West.
(b) Glenn Close.
(c) Murphy Brown.
(d) Roseanne Barr.

2. Women send positive letters after the heroine walks away from the altar in which movie?
(a) The Graduate.
(b) Private Benjamin.
(c) Fatal Attraction.
(d) Flashdance.

3. According to Backlash, the press uses the Harvard-Yale study to scare women into marrying "just to beat the 'odds'." At the same time, they overlook which of the following types of data?
(a) Unmarried women believing their lives are "as easy" as married friends.
(b) Better paid women are more likely to marry.
(c) Women cohabitating at rates twice those of 1970.
(d) Census figures showing 1.9 million more never-married men than women.

4. Who is nicknamed "The Breast Man of San Francisco"?
(a) Dr. Robert Harvey.
(b) Dr. Jack Statz.
(c) Dr. John Voorhees.
(d) Dr. Hugo Ramirez.

5. Faludi asserts that equal attention is given to _______ family size in whites and ________ family size among blacks.
(a) Limiting, increasing.
(b) Increasing, increasing.
(c) Limiting, limiting.
(d) Increasing, limiting.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following two anti-feminist movies are made into television sitcoms?

2. Faludi asserts that the decade's only real infertility epidemic is among young _____ women and is caused largely by the failure to treat ______ early on.

3. When women boo Sheila Levine Is Dead and Living in New York, Faludi sees this as an indication that women want to embrace single womanhood. She says this because of which of the following?

4. Fatal and Fetal Visions deals with how the_________ serve the backlash.

5. The term "strong-armed into motherhood" is used by Faludi to describe which of the following movies?

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