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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. Advertisers tell women career success is harming their complexions and causing all of the following except:
(a) Weight gain.
(b) Dry skin.
(c) Hair loss.
(d) Dandruff.

2. Faludi asserts that a major objective of the attack on feminism is the desire to:
(a) Return to capitalist traditions.
(b) Break women's political will.
(c) Encourage women to band together.
(d) Destroy the family bond.

3. Chapter 13, "The Wages of the Backlash" shows all of the following undermining the progress women make in the 1970s EXCEPT:
(a) Reaganomics.
(b) Religion.
(c) Recession.
(d) An expanding minimum-wage economy.

4. Yankelovich Monitor surveys find that "masculinity" is often defined as a man being a "good provider." This has negative implications for which of the following aspects of the feminist movement?
(a) Women's desires to control their own fertility.
(b) Women's choices of fashion and clothing.
(c) Women's increasing presence in the political arena.
(d) Women's drive for economic equality.

5. The book backlash claims that which of the following is true?
(a) The gap narrows among the college educated.
(b) The gap narrows among Hispanics.
(c) The gap narrows among Blacks.
(d) The pay gap is reduced because of men's falling wages.

Short Answer Questions

1. To gain support for the anti-abortion backlash, the media frame the struggle as:

2. If I'm So Wonderful, Why Am I Still Single? (1988) was written by which of the following authors?

3. ________ issues more miniskirts and says older women want to feel sexy on the job and ________ agrees: "gals" like to show their legs.

4. What is the purpose of the Hyde amendment?

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

(see the answer key)

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