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

2. 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) Turn to male doctors.
(c) Hear that they should take action and speak up.
(d) Hear that they should enjoy themselves.

3. After the pop media launches its assault on single womanhood and increasing divorce numbers, what does Faludi quote as the percent drop in divorce rates?
(a) 20 percent.
(b) 0.2 percent.
(c) 2.2 percent.
(d) 2.0 percent.

4. 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) Women cohabitating at rates twice those of 1970.
(b) Better paid women are more likely to marry.
(c) Census figures showing 1.9 million more never-married men than women.
(d) Unmarried women believing their lives are "as easy" as married friends.

5. In the book Backlash, attackers of the feminist movement are described as working to put women back in their "proper" place _________________ and __________.
(a) Morally, ethnologically.
(b) Relationally, traditionally.
(c) Physiologically, emotionally.
(d) Psychologically, physically.

Short Answer Questions

1. Surveys show that an overwhelming majority of women feel there is still a need for all of the following EXCEPT:

2. 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?

3. The author writes that the feminist movement is blamed for all the evil in ________ society.

4. Another blow to the feminist movement comes when the Supreme Court moves towards which of the following actions?

5. A book claims that during the first year after divorce, a woman's standard of living declines by seventy-three percent while a man's increases by forty-seven percent. This claim is challenged by economists Saul Hoffman and Greg Duncan who have found which of the following statistics over twenty years?

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