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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. Which of the following two anti-feminist movies are made into television sitcoms?
(a) Fatal Attraction and Baby Boom.
(b) Baby Boom and Private Benjamin.
(c) Private Benjamin and Fatal Attraction.
(d) No answers are correct.

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

6. The backlash seeks to divide and conquer by pitting women against each other. Faludi describes all of the following battle lines EXCEPT:
(a) Affluent versus working poor.
(b) Working versus homemakers.
(c) Young versus old.
(d) Single versus married.

7. Which of the following magazines uses the Harvard-Yale study to sell minis?
(a) Women's Day.
(b) Mademoiselle.
(c) Women's Wear Daily.
(d) Newsweek.

8. Faludi makes the point that most women who go mad in 1970s films are repressed and neglected housewives. According to the author, these women do all of the following except what?
(a) Go to other women for advice.
(b) Hear that they should enjoy themselves.
(c) Hear that they should take action and speak up.
(d) Turn to male doctors.

9. In her timeline of women's cosmetic trends, Faludi states that the bright, healthy, athletic look is popular in which era?
(a) During World War I.
(b) In the 1970s.
(c) The 1920s and 1930s.
(d) The 1910s and 1920s.

10. The term "strong-armed into motherhood" is used by Faludi to describe which of the following movies?
(a) Baby Boom.
(b) Broadcast News.
(c) Fatal Attraction.
(d) Crossing Delancey.

11. When women boo Sheila Levine Is Dead and Living in New York, Faludi sees this as an indication that women want to embrace single womanhood. She says this because of which of the following?
(a) No answers are correct.
(b) They prefer the ending in the novel in which the author does not feel the need to marry off the single women. They do not like the wedding scenes and prefer more romantic settings.
(c) They disagree with the ending in the novel in which the author does not feel the need to marry off the single women.
(d) They disagree with the choices of spouses and feel that the writers mismatched the female leads and the men that they marry.

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

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

14. In 1987, what does NBC identify as the possible "yuppie disease of the '80s"?
(a) Financial competition between husbands and wives.
(b) The surge in infertility.
(c) HIV.
(d) The high divorce rates.

15. What is the complete title of the book, Backlash?
(a) Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Families.
(b) Backlash: The Declared War Against American Women.
(c) Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women.
(d) Backlash: The Declared War Against American Families.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. 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?

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

4. Retin-A is approved by the FDA to treat _____________ and is eventually marketed to treat ________.

5. After the pop media launches its assault on single womanhood and increasing divorce numbers, what does Faludi quote as the percent drop in divorce rates?

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