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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Sociologist Lenore Weitzman suggests that the issue of divorce should be handled by doing all of the following EXCEPT:
(a) Rejecting the "charade" of the old system.
(b) Collecting pre-reform data against which to test her hypothesis.
(c) "Fine-tuning" new divorce laws.
(d) Focusing on the core question of whether women are better off "protected" or equal.

2. Faludi writes that all of the following designers try to push femininity onto working women except:
(a) John Weitz.
(b) Calvin Klein.
(c) Christian Dior.
(d) Christian Lacroix.

3. Faludi states that which of the following is less harmful to women than other forms of plastic surgery?
(a) Liposuction.
(b) None of the above.
(c) Breast implants.
(d) Tummy tucks.

4. In Part 1 of Backlash, "Myths and Flashbacks" which of the following myths is analyzed?
(a) Fertility Booms.
(b) Family Upheavals.
(c) Feminist Satisfactions.
(d) Man Shortages.

5. According to Faludi, cosmetic companies try to increase sales by ___________ their products.
(a) Cleaning up.
(b) Reducing.
(c) Medicalizing.
(d) Augmenting.

6. How does Women's Wear Daily serve the feminist movement and the fashion industry?
(a) 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.
(b) 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.
(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 create these clothing lines and women buy the attire.

7. 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) 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.
(b) No answers are correct.
(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.

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

9. In the late 1980s, circulation of traditional women's magazines is down sharply with Good Housekeeping the worst off and Working Woman the best off. To what does Faludi attribute the relative success of Working Woman?
(a) Surveys show that Working Woman has many more loyal readers.
(b) Working Woman has a better system of distribution.
(c) The magazine is concentrating on career women's needs.
(d) Executives at Working Woman focus on traditional female roles, which is what readers want.

10. When making an indictment of 1980s films featuring female jobs, Faludi states that these movies do all of the following except:
(a) Showing why women are better off staying home.
(b) Show female jobs as tedious and supportive of male enterprises.
(c) Fail to indict a demoralizing marketplace.
(d) Show women as recognizing the sacrifices of being working women, but highly satisfied with their choices.

11. In Angels 88 screenwriter Brad Markowitz has been ordered to do all of the following except:
(a) Demote the police academy-trained detectives.
(b) Make the detectives incompetent unemployed actresses.
(c) Add more bikinis.
(d) Make the detectives dropouts from the police academy.

12. 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?
(a) 2.0 percent.
(b) 0.2 percent.
(c) 20 percent.
(d) 2.2 percent.

13. Faludi asserts that a major objective of the attack on feminism is the desire to:
(a) Return to capitalist traditions.
(b) Destroy the family bond.
(c) Break women's political will.
(d) Encourage women to band together.

14. Victoria Secret was intended to be the:
(a) Disneyland version of a 19th-century lady's dressing room.
(b) Retail store to provide real intimate attire for real women.
(c) Store where women could buy lingerie without the interruptions of men.
(d) Type of store where couples could purchase intimate attire for dress-up fantasies.

15. Advertisers tell women career success is harming their complexions and causing all of the following except:
(a) Weight gain.
(b) Hair loss.
(c) Dandruff.
(d) Dry skin.

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. Which author publishes a 922-page compendium in which 4,500 women despair about not being treated as equals by mates?

3. This fragrance initially "celebrates women's liberation" but eventually ran campaigns in which under-aged models were used.

4. Faludi notes that after Reagan becomes president, which of the following are among the political victims?

5. In her timeline of women's cosmetic trends, Faludi states that the bright, healthy, athletic look is popular in which era?

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