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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. In 1988, Robert Filoso defines the "New Generation" of female beauty with mannequins that are:
(a) Flawless, shorter, bustier, and wasp-waisted.
(b) All answers are correct.
(c) Taller, more slender, and poutier.
(d) Flawless, slender, and shorter.

2. 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) Turn to male doctors.
(b) Go to other women for advice.
(c) Hear that they should enjoy themselves.
(d) Hear that they should take action and speak up.

3. 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 disagree with the choices of spouses and feel that the writers mismatched the female leads and the men that they marry.
(b) No answers are correct.
(c) 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.
(d) They disagree with the ending in the novel in which the author does not feel the need to marry off the single women.

4. What three relationship trends increased in the 1950s?
(a) Unhappy single womanhood, women marrying to conform to societal expectations, and women fleeing unhappy marriages.
(b) Happy single womanhood, women marrying to conform to societal expectations, and women fleeing unhappy marriages.
(c) Happy single womanhood, women marrying to conform to societal expectations, and women forcing husbands into counseling to save unhappy marriages.
(d) Happy single womanhood, women marrying on their own terms, and women fleeing unhappy marriages.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following terms was coined as a part of the backlash?

2. According to Faludi, thirty years of data show that men suffer __________ __________ than do women.

3. _________ and ________, two demographers at the Census Bureau, re-run the Harvard-Yale study using 1980 data and find a major flaw in the study and its calculations.

4. A book claims that during the first year after divorce, a woman's standard of living declines by seventy-three percent while a man's increases by forty-seven percent. This claim is challenged by economists Saul Hoffman and Greg Duncan who have found which of the following statistics over twenty years?

5. Faludi writes that all of the following designers try to push femininity onto working women except:

Short Essay Questions

1. Select at least three media outlets and discuss how they work with the backlash to use relationship "scare tactics" to fight against the feminist movement.

2. During the 1988 television season, many female characters joke about being like June Cleaver. What point are they making by claiming this analogy?

3. In a survey of men, it was found that only a small percentage truly supported equality for women. Identify two reasons why men would support equality for women and two reasons why they would not support this initiative.

4. Summarize three ways in which Felice Schwartz affects the feminist movement.

5. Faludi writes that getting ABC to put Marilyn French's best-selling novel The Women's Room on screen is Esther Shapiro's "most grueling" professional experience. What are some of the factors that make this project so difficult?

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

7. Murphy Brown and Roseanne were two characters who were reviled by the backlash according to Faludi. Why were these women disliked so strongly? Also discuss the ways in which the backlash launches their attack of Murphy and Roseanne.

8. According to survey responses, women believe they need equal pay, the right to abortions, and decent childcare. Discuss how reforms in those areas would impact women's lives.

9. On the issue of women's liberation and equality, compare the perspective of politicians, journalists, and business leaders versus those of women.

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

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