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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Faludi, thirty years of data show that men suffer __________ __________ than do women.
(a) Less psychologically.
(b) More physically.
(c) Less physically.
(d) More psychologically.

2. Cries of a "birth dearth" proudly seeks to scare educated white women into keeping up with which of the following groups according to Faludi?
(a) No answers are correct.
(b) Families in other industrialized nations.
(c) Paupers, fools, and foreigners.
(d) Their married, child-bearing peers.

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?
(a) It finds a tiny gender gap--with more women than men putting family over professional advancement.
(b) It finds no gender gap--both men and women are putting family over professional advancement.
(c) No answers are correct.
(d) It finds a tiny gender gap--with more men than women putting family over professional advancement.

4. Faludi notes that after Reagan becomes president, which of the following are among the political victims?
(a) The Equal Rights Amendment.
(b) Newspapers.
(c) The Vice President.
(d) The Office of Domestic Violence.

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

6. Guess Jeans' advertising campaign is based variously on all the following except:
(a) Fellini's La Dolce Vita.
(b) Fatal Attraction.
(c) Thirty-Something.
(d) Elia Kazan's Baby Doll.

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

8. Faludi notes that rarely do the backlash's "force and furor" become as public as when which of the following occurs?
(a) When women's clinics are shut down due to systematic lobbying efforts.
(b) When prominent politicians deliver speeches against feminism.
(c) When women's clinics are firebombed.
(d) When women's clinics are awarded additional funding.

9. Which of the following women is cited in the book as being consistently shut out of the Emmys, disapproved of in public by George Bush, and having a nationwide club formed just to hate and revile her?
(a) Glenn Close.
(b) Mae West.
(c) Murphy Brown.
(d) Roseanne Barr.

10. All of the following are researchers on the Harvard-Yale marriage study EXCEPT:
(a) David Bloom.
(b) Patricia Craig.
(c) Jeanne Moorman.
(d) Neil Bennett.

11. In coining the term "cocooning," Faith Popcorn was seeking to do what according to Faludi?
(a) Show men as being more focused on sacrificing career advancement for family time.
(b) Support the backlash's efforts to highlight slight changes in women returning to traditional roles.
(c) Identify a gender-neutral trend of parents leaving the office for being at home.
(d) Highlight the fact that neither men nor women are placing family time over career advancement.

12. In the American version of the French film Three Men and a Baby, what significant change is made to the story line?
(a) It makes all of the men happy to have a baby to take raise.
(b) It adds a dour lawyer, Rebecca, who lacks both maternal and romantic "juices."
(c) It has the men raising one baby rather than twins.
(d) It includes the remorseful mother returning to take care of the baby and marry one of the fathers.

13. The author writes that the feminist movement is blamed for all the evil in ________ society.
(a) Contemporary.
(b) Futuristic.
(c) Every.
(d) Historical.

14. British directory/screenwriter James Dearden's screenplay makes the adulterous husband more sympathetic; however, according to Faludi, it was intended to be an exploration of what?
(a) A middle-aged man's fight for monogamy.
(b) The family unit and how it can be torn apart.
(c) An individual's responsibility for a stranger's suffering.
(d) The plight of a suburban housewife.

15. Television assaults the women's movement less than Hollywood movies; Faludi states that this is because of what factor?
(a) There are more women executives in the television industry who support the women's movement.
(b) Television producers do not wish to tackle these issues through on-screen programming.
(c) Women are a majority of viewers and are advertisers' prime target.
(d) Hollywood movies have greater budgets and more freedom with their creativity.

Short Answer Questions

1. The backlash seeks to divide and conquer by pitting women against each other. Faludi describes all of the following battle lines EXCEPT:

2. During the 1980s all the following firsts are accomplished EXCEPT:

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

4. Backlash is written in which decade?

5. As the health care industry continues to convince women they need medical attention, the market increases for which of these services?

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