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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Epilogue.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Faludi, male crews comment that there are "too many women" on the job. This is reinforced by management's tendency to which of the following?
(a) Blame affirmative action when rejecting male applicants.
(b) All answers are correct.
(c) Demote men while promoting women.
(d) Show preferential treatment to women in meetings.

2. How does Women's Wear Daily serve the feminist movement and the fashion industry?
(a) It tries unsuccessfully to convince women to buy into overly feminine and exploitive clothing to work; male fashion designers attempt to fight against the trend, but this is what women want to buy.
(b) It convinces women to buy into overly feminine and exploitive clothing to work; male fashion designers create these clothing lines and women buy the attire.
(c) It tries unsuccessfully to convince women to buy into overly feminine and exploitive clothing to work, male fashion designers create these clothing lines and women do not buy the attire.
(d) It convinces women to buy into overly feminine and exploitive clothing to work; male fashion designers attempt to fight against the trend, but this is what women want to buy.

3. Who casts his wife in the demeaning role of an unsmiling female doctor who clutches her book about obsession and compulsion?
(a) Adrian Lyne.
(b) James Dearden.
(c) Michael Douglas.
(d) David Mamet.

4. Sylvia Ann Hewlett worked at which university?
(a) Barnard College.
(b) Yeshiva University.
(c) Cornell.
(d) No answers are correct.

5. Faludi asserts that the decade's only real infertility epidemic is among young _____ women and is caused largely by the failure to treat ______ early on.
(a) White, herpes.
(b) White, HPV.
(c) Black, chlamydia.
(d) Black, gonorrhea.

Short Answer Questions

1. This author dismisses a young woman's objection about women's role in gathering supplies.

2. The chapter "Teen Angels and Unwed Witches" turns to which of the following media?

3. In 1980 sex discrimination and other kinds of complaints filed before which agency climbs twenty-five to forty percent?

4. According to Faludi, when women cannot find a niche that does not conflict with the backlash message, they must do which of the following?

5. In 1988, at every level, writes Faludi, women candidates above the state legislature are at record low numbers and those who run generally lose. What does Faludi blame for this trend?

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