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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 4: Chapter 13.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Part 2 of the book The Backlash in Popular Culture looks at trends in all the following media EXCEPT:
(a) Print.
(b) Magazines.
(c) Television.
(d) Internet.

2. Faludi suggests that movies are used by men to deal with their emotions concerning women. How does she suggest this is done?
(a) By watching tapes at home men develop bitter grudges and ongoing fears about women.
(b) They avoid movies in which women are not treated equally and support movies that show they are progressive and in support of the feminist movement.
(c) When watching movies with female partners, men cow them into silence by shouting at the screen.
(d) In dark theaters men work out deep-seated resentments and fears about women.

3. In 1984, who is the highest-placed woman in the New Right?
(a) Faith Whittlesey.
(b) Phyllis Schlafly.
(c) Connaught ("Connie") Marshner.
(d) Beverly LaHaye.

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

5. Paul Weyrich is defined by Faludi as all the following EXCEPT:
(a) Viewing women's liberation as a dangerous lie.
(b) Founder of the Heritage Foundation.
(c) Considering feminism as a dead issue.
(d) The "Father of the New Right."

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following two anti-feminist movies are made into television sitcoms?

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

4. Which organization's findings do not support the idea of a "baby boomlet" among career women?

5. Who casts his wife in the demeaning role of an unsmiling female doctor who clutches her book about obsession and compulsion?

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