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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 4: Chapter 13.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Unmarried, childless after forty, hooked on work, a 1970s feminist and the third generation in her family to have a low view of "traditional femininity." This is Faludi's description of which market research trend executive?
(a) Felice Schwartz.
(b) Faith Popcorn.
(c) Mary Anne Devanna.
(d) No answers are correct.

2. 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 both issues than they give to the feminist struggle.
(b) Faludi states that the media gives little coverage to both issues.
(c) 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.
(d) Faludi states that the media gives equal coverage to the feminist struggle, protests against the Miss America pageant, and burning bras.

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

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

5. Which of the following women bets a male reporter that she will marry by forty?
(a) Cecelia Gouge.
(b) Elia Kazan.
(c) Patsy Howell.
(d) Diane Doe.

Short Answer Questions

1. Part 2 of the book The Backlash in Popular Culture looks at trends in all the following media EXCEPT:

2. Faludi suggests that movies are used by men to deal with their emotions concerning women. How does she suggest this is done?

3. In 1989 which Ivy League university commissioned a survey that confirmed the findings of the Fortune magazine research on female MBA students "bailing out"?

4. Faludi suggests that Western European "social feminists" have a better record with childcare and maternity leave because of which of the following?

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

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