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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Epilogue.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. After the pop media launches its assault on single womanhood and increasing divorce numbers, what does Faludi quote as the percent drop in divorce rates?
(a) 0.2 percent.
(b) 2.0 percent.
(c) 2.2 percent.
(d) 20 percent.

2. Sylvia Ann Hewlett worked at which university?
(a) No answers are correct.
(b) Barnard College.
(c) Cornell.
(d) Yeshiva University.

3. Faludi suggests that Western European "social feminists" have a better record with childcare and maternity leave because of which of the following?
(a) The European feminist movement is more effective in attaining its goals.
(b) Europeans are more in tuned with the needs of women.
(c) The American feminist movement has been undercut by the backlash.
(d) Postwar European governments must rebuild their populations.

4. Which of the following women is a Harvard-educated lawyer and author of nine books who twice runs for Congress?
(a) Faith Whittlesey.
(b) Beverly LaHaye.
(c) Connaught ("Connie") Marshner.
(d) Phyllis Schlafly.

5. In 1987 what percent of single women accept bearing and raising children outside wedlock?
(a) 90 percent.
(b) 29 percent.
(c) 55 percent.
(d) 87 percent.

Short Answer Questions

1. Faludi notes that after Reagan becomes president, which of the following are among the political victims?

2. At the end of the 1980s the largest protest ever held in Washington, DC was dedicated to what issue?

3. According to Faludi, male crews comment that there are "too many women" on the job. This is reinforced by management's tendency to which of the following?

4. What is the purpose of the Hyde amendment?

5. According to Faludi, when women cannot find a niche that does not conflict with the backlash message, they must do which of the following?

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