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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 1: Chapters 2-3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Faludi asserts that under the Reagan administration which of the following are pressured to generate data that fit the war on women's independence?
(a) Media organizations receiving federal grants.
(b) U.S. Census Bureau demographers.
(c) University researchers.
(d) U.S. Department of Education statisticians.

2. By the 1980s the media begins to hail the arrival of a "________ generation."
(a) Post-feminist.
(b) Post-gender.
(c) Anti-gender.
(d) Anti-feminist.

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

4. Why do politicians, journalists, and business leaders claim that women need no more help advancing?
(a) They have returned to traditional roles.
(b) They are in the infancy of their independence.
(c) They have come of age.
(d) They have surpassed men in their accomplishments.

5. In the book Backlash, attackers of the feminist movement are described as working to put women back in their "proper" place _________________ and __________.
(a) Relationally, traditionally.
(b) Morally, ethnologically.
(c) Physiologically, emotionally.
(d) Psychologically, physically.

Short Answer Questions

1. Faludi asserts that a major objective of the attack on feminism is the desire to:

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

3. According to Backlash, career women are warned that their choice to delay pregnancy and childbirth are resulting in which of the following?

4. A book claims that during the first year after divorce, a woman's standard of living declines by seventy-three percent while a man's increases by forty-seven percent. This claim is challenged by economists Saul Hoffman and Greg Duncan who have found which of the following statistics over twenty years?

5. During the 1980s all the following firsts are accomplished EXCEPT:

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