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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 4: Chapter 12.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of these is not a goal of the New Right?
(a) A ban on all abortions.
(b) Revocation of the Equal Pay Act.
(c) All answers are correct.
(d) Censoring of birth control information.

2. Which author publishes a 922-page compendium in which 4,500 women despair about not being treated as equals by mates?
(a) No answers are correct.
(b) Dr. Srully Blotnick.
(c) Shere Hite.
(d) Patricia Craig.

3. Whose design house loses $9.3 million in 1989?
(a) Christian Lacroix.
(b) Calvin Klein.
(c) Christian Dior.
(d) John Weitz.

4. How does the Faludi describe the media's treatment of protests against the Miss America pageant and burning bras?
(a) Faludi states that the media gives greater coverage to the feminist struggle than they give to protests against the Miss America pageant and burning bras.
(b) Faludi states that the media gives equal coverage to the feminist struggle, protests against the Miss America pageant, and burning bras.
(c) Faludi states that the media gives little coverage to both issues.
(d) Faludi states that the media gives greater coverage to both issues than they give to the feminist struggle.

5. 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) U.S. Census Bureau demographers.
(b) U.S. Department of Education statisticians.
(c) Media organizations receiving federal grants.
(d) University researchers.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. According to Faludi, how are female characters treated in morality tales?

3. In the 1980 presidential election, the only clear differentiation from the Democrats comes when the Republicans do what according to Faludi?

4. What is the message of chapter 11, "The Backlash Brain Trust: From Neocons to Neofems"?

5. Which female executive is quoted as saying she hopes companies can treat "career-and-family women" more leniently than "career-primary" women?

(see the answer key)

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