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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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.

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

3. Which of the following terms was coined as a part of the backlash?
(a) Mommy syndrome.
(b) Feminism movement.
(c) Biological clock.
(d) Husband shortage.

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

5. 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) Paupers, fools, and foreigners.
(b) Families in other industrialized nations.
(c) No answers are correct.
(d) Their married, child-bearing peers.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. An analogy is made between heiress Patricia Hearst and many female characters of the 1980s. Which of the following expresses the comparison?

3. Sociologist Lenore Weitzman suggests that the issue of divorce should be handled by doing all of the following EXCEPT:

4. In 1988, Robert Filoso defines the "New Generation" of female beauty with mannequins that are:

5. According to Backlash, career women are warned that their choice to delay pregnancy and childbirth are resulting in which of the following?

Short Essay Questions

1. Discuss the implications of the misinformation perpetuated by the Harvard study.

2. Chronicle the evolution of Ms. magazine in the 1980s.

3. In your opinion, why do you believe that society markets marriage and children to women much more than to men?

4. Who is Dr. Robert Harvey and why is he discussed in the chapter on the cosmetic industry?

5. Discuss three instances in which Faludi uses personification in her description of the backlash.

6. Recount the stages of the "Intimate Apparel Explosion" as written by Faludi. In your account, include the names of at least four individuals and/or companies

7. Explain why the media would not focus on feminist issues such as jobs, equal pay, or coeducation but would instead give heavy coverage to protests against the Miss America pageant and burning bras.

8. Discuss how the backlash uses the technique of divide and conquer. Analyze how each of the following pairs of women can be pitted against each other: single versus married, working versus homemakers, and affluent versus working poor.

9. What role does Women's Wear Daily play between the fashion industry and the feminist movement?

10. After Reagan is elected president, many changes occur in the political arena that affect the feminist movement. Discuss three of these changes and how they affect the fight for women's rights.

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