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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2: Chapters 7-8.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Another blow to the feminist movement comes when the Supreme Court moves towards which of the following actions?
(a) Striking down the Equal Rights Amendment.
(b) Reconsidering abortion rights.
(c) Removing gender-based arguments from its hearings.
(d) Removing all gender-neutral policies from public laws.

3. Who casts his wife in the demeaning role of an unsmiling female doctor who clutches her book about obsession and compulsion?
(a) Michael Douglas.
(b) Adrian Lyne.
(c) David Mamet.
(d) James Dearden.

4. In 1989 which Ivy League university commissioned a survey that confirmed the findings of the Fortune magazine research on female MBA students "bailing out"?
(a) Yale.
(b) Harvard.
(c) Stanford.
(d) Columbia.

5. Faludi states that in 1986, NBC and Cosmopolitan warn women of three side effects of divorce including:
(a) Childlessness, bitterness, and financial ruin.
(b) An empty bank account, bitterness, and loneliness.
(c) Depression, loneliness, and an empty bank account.
(d) Loneliness, depression, and childlessness.

Short Answer Questions

1. All of the following are researchers on the Harvard-Yale marriage study EXCEPT:

2. Select the magazine that Faludi praises for using federal statistics to accurately portray the career choices of women.

3. In 1988, Robert Filoso defines the "New Generation" of female beauty with mannequins that are:

4. 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?

5. Faludi suggests that movies are used by men to deal with their emotions concerning women. How does she suggest this is done?

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