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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. George Gilder, a Reagan speechwriter, states that the women's movement does all of the following EXCEPT:
(a) Champions social welfare programs.
(b) Allows women to survive without husbands.
(c) Encourages women to work.
(d) Supports male misogyny.

2. Which of the following claims to be the "media's number one psychologist," broadcasting live, nationwide, from Los Angeles?
(a) Robin Norwood.
(b) Toni Grant.
(c) Karen Horney.
(d) Teresa Bernardez.

3. Which of the following occur in the case of Angela Carder ("A.C"), age twenty-eight, a bone cancer victim who conceives in 1984 while in remission?
(a) After consulting her family, the hospital calls on Judge Emmet Sullivan to decide.
(b) The ACLU cites the Supreme Court precedent for putting giving equal weight to the mother's and fetus' health.
(c) No answers are correct.
(d) Her long-time oncologist recommends aggressive treatment, but doctors and lawyers at the hospital worry about endangering the fetus and liability.

4. Women Who Love Too Much: When You Keep Wishing and Hoping He'll Change is written by which of the following authors?
(a) Karen Horney.
(b) Robin Norwood.
(c) Teresa Bernardez.
(d) Toni Grant.

5. In the summer following the 1988 election, which women's organization held a conference at which a motion passes to discuss a third political party?
(a) Concerned Women for America.
(b) National Organization for Women.
(c) Women's Agenda Conference.
(d) Eagle Forum.

6. In the 1980s, Faludi makes the point that women are marginalized and can ask for childcare and parental leave only if they forego seeking all of the following except:
(a) Reproductive freedom.
(b) Health care.
(c) Equal pay.
(d) Educational opportunity.

7. Who was the author of the book, Closed: 99 Ways to Stop Abortion?
(a) John Willke.
(b) Emmet Sullivan.
(c) Randall Terry.
(d) Joseph Scheidler.

8. Which book blames women for depleting men of "vim and vigor"?
(a) Wealth and Poverty.
(b) Ripon Forum.
(c) Feminism and Freedom.
(d) The Closing of the American Mind.

9. According to Faludi, rather than helping women to overcome the problems with misogyny, the book If I'm So Wonderful, Why Am I Still Single? suggests that women can be happy only if they do all of the following EXCEPT:
(a) Stop trying to make men change.
(b) Strive to be self-fulfilled.
(c) Learn to compromise.
(d) Postpone careers until children are grown.

10. ***Poet Robert Bly speaks to mostly all-male audiences about healthier views of masculinity in the time of all of the following EXCEPT:
(a) Norsemen.
(b) Viking Power.
(c) The Odyssey.
(d) The Iliad.

11. According to Toni Grant, self-assertion for women is abnormal and relinquishing control is naturally feminine. Therefore, when women attempt to control their own destiny they are in fact showing that they are _____________.
(a) Self-destructive.
(b) Masochistic.
(c) All answers are correct.
(d) Misogynistic.

12. Child abuse laws are extended to the fetus and "fetal neglect" bills flood legislatures as a result of which strategy?
(a) An attempt to humanize the fetus and neutralize the mother.
(b) The decision to provide fathers with a strategy to protect their unborn children.
(c) To reduce the number of US individuals addicted to drugs.
(d) The policy of allowing mothers to take precedence over the fetus.

13. According to Faludi, Randall Terry is a leading figure in the antiabortion movement and his emotional baggage dates from which of the following?
(a) Being the product of a failed abortion attempt by his mother.
(b) No answers are correct.
(c) Been rejected by his father who was married and wanted his mother to have an abortion.
(d) Being raised by three feminist aunts who each had personal stakes in legal abortions.

14. According to Faludi what was one of the radical suggestions made by Franham and Lundberg's Modern Women?
(a) Subsidizing psychotherapy to get neurotic women married.
(b) Providing day care centers at all jobs with at least 20 women employed.
(c) Helping women to understand that they must fulfill their own career goals.
(d) Suggest that the government approve family counseling programs.

15. Smart Women/Foolish Choices and Women Men Love/Women Men Leave are written by which of the following two authors?
(a) Kinder Melvin and Cowan Connell.
(b) Melvin Kinder and Connell Cowan.
(c) Kinder Connell and Melvin Cowan.
(d) Melvin Cowan and Connell Kinder.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the books, Smart Women/Foolish Choices and Women Men Love/Women Men Leave women are told that their problems stem from which of the following choices?

2. 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?

3. Christine Craft is demoted for which of the following reasons?

4. By ignoring women's issues in his acceptance speech, which presidential candidate sees his twenty-four percent gender gap decease to only eight percent by Election Day?

5. Part 3, "Origins of a Reaction: Backlash Movers, Shakers, and Thinkers," begins by looking at "The Politics of Resentment: The ___________ War on Women."

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