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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. Sociologist Lenore Weitzman suggests that the issue of divorce should be handled by doing all of the following EXCEPT:
(a) Collecting pre-reform data against which to test her hypothesis.
(b) Focusing on the core question of whether women are better off "protected" or equal.
(c) Rejecting the "charade" of the old system.
(d) "Fine-tuning" new divorce laws.

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) Removing gender-based arguments from its hearings.
(c) Removing all gender-neutral policies from public laws.
(d) Reconsidering abortion rights.

3. Select the book that claims that children are worse off when parents divorce.
(a) Parents Choices.
(b) Second Chance.
(c) The Little Ones.
(d) After Divorce.

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

5. According to Backlash, the press uses the Harvard-Yale study to scare women into marrying "just to beat the 'odds'." At the same time, they overlook which of the following types of data?
(a) Better paid women are more likely to marry.
(b) Census figures showing 1.9 million more never-married men than women.
(c) Unmarried women believing their lives are "as easy" as married friends.
(d) Women cohabitating at rates twice those of 1970.

Short Answer Questions

1. Backlash is written in which decade?

2. According to Backlash, attacking the feminist movement is accomplished by systematically using which of the following?

3. What outlet first declares that women's chances of conceiving drops not after age forty but after thirty?

4. The "Big Lie" joins ____________ to the "dime-store moralism of yesteryear."

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

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