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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 4: Chapter 13.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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.

2. How does the Faludi describe the media's treatment of protests against the Miss America pageant and burning bras?
(a) Faludi states that the media gives greater coverage to both issues than they give to the feminist struggle.
(b) Faludi states that the media gives equal coverage to the feminist struggle, protests against the Miss America pageant, and burning bras.
(c) Faludi states that the media gives greater coverage to the feminist struggle than they give to protests against the Miss America pageant and burning bras.
(d) Faludi states that the media gives little coverage to both issues.

3. Chapter 13, "The Wages of the Backlash" shows all of the following undermining the progress women make in the 1970s EXCEPT:
(a) An expanding minimum-wage economy.
(b) Reaganomics.
(c) Religion.
(d) Recession.

4. According to Faludi, male crews comment that there are "too many women" on the job. This is reinforced by management's tendency to which of the following?
(a) Show preferential treatment to women in meetings.
(b) Demote men while promoting women.
(c) All answers are correct.
(d) Blame affirmative action when rejecting male applicants.

5. In coining the term "cocooning," Faith Popcorn was seeking to do what according to Faludi?
(a) Show men as being more focused on sacrificing career advancement for family time.
(b) Support the backlash's efforts to highlight slight changes in women returning to traditional roles.
(c) Highlight the fact that neither men nor women are placing family time over career advancement.
(d) Identify a gender-neutral trend of parents leaving the office for being at home.

Short Answer Questions

1. Newsweek uses the metaphor that women are "______ ________ to be killed by a terrorist" than to _________.

2. In 1989 which Ivy League university commissioned a survey that confirmed the findings of the Fortune magazine research on female MBA students "bailing out"?

3. Select the magazine that Faludi praises for using federal statistics to accurately portray the career choices of women.

4. All of the following are listed for reasons for newspapers cutting available jobs except:

5. The New Right select which of the following adjectives to describe feminism?

(see the answer key)

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