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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2: Chapters 5-6.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. In coining the term "cocooning," Faith Popcorn was seeking to do what according to Faludi?
(a) Highlight the fact that neither men nor women are placing family time over career advancement.
(b) Identify a gender-neutral trend of parents leaving the office for being at home.
(c) Show men as being more focused on sacrificing career advancement for family time.
(d) Support the backlash's efforts to highlight slight changes in women returning to traditional roles.

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

4. Cries of a "birth dearth" proudly seeks to scare educated white women into keeping up with which of the following groups according to Faludi?
(a) No answers are correct.
(b) Families in other industrialized nations.
(c) Paupers, fools, and foreigners.
(d) Their married, child-bearing peers.

5. What is the complete title of the book, Backlash?
(a) Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Families.
(b) Backlash: The Declared War Against American Women.
(c) Backlash: The Declared War Against American Families.
(d) Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. According to Faludi, how are female characters treated in morality tales?

3. In 1989 which Ivy League university commissioned a survey that confirmed the findings of the Fortune magazine research on female MBA students "bailing out"?

4. According to Backlash, attacking the feminist movement is accomplished by systematically using which of the following?

5. An analogy is made between heiress Patricia Hearst and many female characters of the 1980s. Which of the following expresses the comparison?

(see the answer key)

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