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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 4: Chapter 14.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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?
(a) Working Woman has a better system of distribution.
(b) Executives at Working Woman focus on traditional female roles, which is what readers want.
(c) Surveys show that Working Woman has many more loyal readers.
(d) The magazine is concentrating on career women's needs.

2. All of the following are listed for reasons for newspapers cutting available jobs except:
(a) Unchanging market share.
(b) Declining circulation.
(c) Mergers.
(d) Falling ad lineage.

3. According to Toni Grant, self-assertion for women is abnormal and relinquishing control is naturally feminine. Therefore, when women attempt to control their own destiny they are in fact showing that they are _____________.
(a) Masochistic.
(b) Misogynistic.
(c) All answers are correct.
(d) Self-destructive.

4. Which of these is not a goal of the New Right?
(a) All answers are correct.
(b) A ban on all abortions.
(c) Censoring of birth control information.
(d) Revocation of the Equal Pay Act.

5. According to Backlash, career women are warned that their choice to delay pregnancy and childbirth are resulting in which of the following?
(a) Higher incidents of birth defects.
(b) Endometriosis.
(c) Higher miscarriage rates.
(d) Greater abortion rates.

Short Answer Questions

1. In 1987 what percent of single women accept bearing and raising children outside wedlock?

2. Which of the following women had oversight of the funding from the Women's Educational Equity Act?

3. In the 1980 presidential election, the only clear differentiation from the Democrats comes when the Republicans do what according to Faludi?

4. Faludi states that in 1986, NBC and Cosmopolitan warn women of three side effects of divorce including:

5. Grant claims that Gilligan's In a Different Voice teaches her that the "______________" is the essence of being a woman.

(see the answer key)

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