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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2: Chapter 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Faludi notes that after Reagan becomes president, which of the following are among the political victims?
(a) The Equal Rights Amendment.
(b) Newspapers.
(c) The Office of Domestic Violence.
(d) The Vice President.

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

3. Which book provides the "devastating" statistics that there is a seventy-three percent decline in a woman's standard of living during the first year after divorce versus a man's forty-seven percent increase?
(a) When Divorce Happens.
(b) The Divorce Revolution.
(c) The Divorce Generation.
(d) The Force of Divorce.

4. Which female executive is quoted as saying she hopes companies can treat "career-and-family women" more leniently than "career-primary" women?
(a) Mary Anne Devanna.
(b) Bonnie Chambers.
(c) Faith Popcorn.
(d) Felice Schwartz.

5. The major networks parade tearfully "penitent unwed" women through the media; Faludi highlights examples from all the following networks EXCEPT:
(a) ABC.
(b) CBS.
(c) NBC.
(d) FOX.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why do politicians, journalists, and business leaders claim that women need no more help advancing?

2. Faludi notes that rarely do the backlash's "force and furor" become as public as when which of the following occurs?

3. In the book Backlash, attackers of the feminist movement are described as working to put women back in their "proper" place _________________ and __________.

4. Sociologist Lenore Weitzman suggests that the issue of divorce should be handled by doing all of the following EXCEPT:

5. What three relationship trends increased in the 1950s?

(see the answer key)

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