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

2. Why does Faludi believe Warren Farrell's loses his enthusiasm for the feminist movement?
(a) He is tired of defending his position.
(b) All answers are correct.
(c) Feminism is fading in the media.
(d) Women are unhappy that he is a spokesman for the movement.

3. According to Faludi, how are female characters treated in morality tales?
(a) Women are not judged according to their lifestyle choices.
(b) Good mothers win, and independent women are punished.
(c) Good mothers are punished, and independent women win.
(d) Good mothers win, and single women are always envious of those in traditional roles.

4. What outlet first declares that women's chances of conceiving drops not after age forty but after thirty?
(a) U.S. National Center for Health Statistics.
(b) U.S. Census Bureau.
(c) The New England Journal of Medicine.
(d) French researchers Schwartz and Mayaux.

5. In 1984, who is the highest-placed woman in the New Right?
(a) Faith Whittlesey.
(b) Connaught ("Connie") Marshner.
(c) Phyllis Schlafly.
(d) Beverly LaHaye.

Short Answer Questions

1. Both Susan and Stephen Price claim to be ___________ in a ___________ age.

2. Medical journals define codependency as individuals doing which of the following?

3. Faludi asserts that under the Reagan administration which of the following are pressured to generate data that fit the war on women's independence?

4. 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?

5. Faludi identified which of the following books as the most widely quoted and influential feminist work in the 1980s?

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