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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Medical journals define codependency as individuals doing which of the following?
(a) Being unable to live without each other.
(b) Selecting dysfunctional life partners.
(c) Choosing to live with more than one adult partner.
(d) Ending unfulfilling relationships.

2. Faludi claims that the requirement of parental consent results in which of the following statistics?
(a) All answers are correct.
(b) A forty percent climb in the birth rate among fifteen to seventeen-year-olds.
(c) A two percent rise in second trimester abortions.
(d) A reversal in the eighteen-year trend of a downward teenage birthrate.

3. 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) Postpone careers until children are grown.
(c) Strive to be self-fulfilled.
(d) Learn to compromise.

4. What is the message of chapter 11, "The Backlash Brain Trust: From Neocons to Neofems"?
(a) No answers are correct.
(b) How large non-profit organizations fund backlash efforts in the 1980.
(c) How a variety of "experts" both frighten and confuse people about feminism in the 1980s.
(d) How laypeople are used by the backlash to discredit feminism in the 1980s.

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?
(a) The "public drubbing" of Geraldine Ferraro.
(b) The hard-nosed tactics used by the press against any woman candidate.
(c) The anti-activist agenda pushed by Charlene Heatherly.
(d) All answers are correct.

6. Who does Faludi cite as the most famous feminist to retract her views?
(a) Betty Friedan.
(b) Camille Paglia.
(c) Carol Gilligan.
(d) Susan Brownmiller.

7. Which of these is not a goal of the New Right?
(a) A ban on all abortions.
(b) All answers are correct.
(c) Revocation of the Equal Pay Act.
(d) Censoring of birth control information.

8. The Price's use all of the following accommodations to a feminist lifestyle except which of the following?
(a) Susan does not complete her professional studies to become a therapist.
(b) Susan does not want to be a homemaker, over Stephen's objections.
(c) They use babysitters and nursery schools and Susan is content.
(d) Susan puts Stephen through graduate school.

9. The federal "reductions in force" hit women over which level twice as badly as men?
(a) G.S. 5.
(b) All answers are correct.
(c) G.S. 11.
(d) G.S. 9.

10. Faludi claims that Robin Norwood stops making speeches, divorces, and withdraws into a "shell-like existence" after which of the following events?
(a) She is unable to command large crowds at events.
(b) She realizes she is unable to have a baby.
(c) She finds that her recovery by marrying the "right" man is short-lived.
(d) She claims that she is unable to escape the feminist movement.

11. What is the purpose of the Hyde amendment?
(a) To block federal funding of abortions.
(b) To end legalized abortion.
(c) To require a husband's consent prior to an abortion.
(d) All answers are correct.

12. Which of the following two individuals does Faludi highlight as being unmarried while preaching that women should marry?
(a) All these individuals are married.
(b) Robert Bly and Sylvia Ann Hewlett.
(c) Michael Levin and Warren Farrell.
(d) George Gilder and Allan Bloom.

13. 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) All answers are correct.
(c) Masochistic.
(d) Misogynistic.

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

15. Beverly LaHaye founds Concerned Women for America (CWA); her husband Tim LaHaye is co-founder of which organization?
(a) Free Congress Foundation.
(b) Moral Majority.
(c) Heritage Foundation.
(d) Young Americans for Freedom.

Short Answer Questions

1. Women Who Love Too Much: When You Keep Wishing and Hoping He'll Change is written by which of the following authors?

2. Faludi identified which of the following books as the most widely quoted and influential feminist work in the 1980s?

3. If I'm So Wonderful, Why Am I Still Single? (1988) was written by which of the following authors?

4. Child abuse laws are extended to the fetus and "fetal neglect" bills flood legislatures as a result of which strategy?

5. In 1987 what percent of single women accept bearing and raising children outside wedlock?

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