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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2: Chapter 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) Unmarried women believing their lives are "as easy" as married friends.
(b) Better paid women are more likely to marry.
(c) Women cohabitating at rates twice those of 1970.
(d) Census figures showing 1.9 million more never-married men than women.

2. Which book provides the "devastating" statistics that there is a seventy-three percent decline in a woman's standard of living during the first year after divorce versus a man's forty-seven percent increase?
(a) The Divorce Generation.
(b) The Force of Divorce.
(c) When Divorce Happens.
(d) The Divorce Revolution.

3. According to Backlash, attacking the feminist movement is accomplished by systematically using which of the following?
(a) No answers are correct.
(b) Popular culture.
(c) Research on children's opinions.
(d) Grassroots movements of husbands and fathers.

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

5. Which organization's findings do not support the idea of a "baby boomlet" among career women?
(a) No answers are correct.
(b) Census Bureau data.
(c) Time magazine research.
(d) Annual surveys by professional organizations.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following terms was coined as a part of the backlash?

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

3. What are the findings of the 1987 survey conducted by Fortune magazine on the issue of "bailing out," the term used to describe female MBA students opting for less demanding careers to concentrate on marriage and family?

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

5. According to Faludi, thirty years of data show that men suffer __________ __________ than do women.

(see the answer key)

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