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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 the following occur following Reagan's second term in office?
(a) A greater number of conservative women begin to support the Democratic candidates.
(b) No answers are correct.
(c) The New Right criticizes Reagan for not supporting its agenda more strongly during his first term.
(d) The number of female appointments drops below the level achieved during Reagan's first term.

2. The book backlash claims that which of the following is true?
(a) The gap narrows among Hispanics.
(b) The gap narrows among the college educated.
(c) The pay gap is reduced because of men's falling wages.
(d) The gap narrows among Blacks.

3. Which of the following network replacements is not accurate?
(a) Jane Pauley is replaced by Deborah Norville.
(b) Kathleen Sullivan is replaced by Jane Pauley.
(c) Deborah Norville is replaced by Katie Couric.
(d) Kathleen Sullivan is replaced by Paula Zahn.

4. In 1980 sex discrimination and other kinds of complaints filed before which agency climbs twenty-five to forty percent?
(a) NOW.
(b) No answers are correct.
(c) The EEOC.
(d) The ERA.

5. In 1987, what does NBC identify as the possible "yuppie disease of the '80s"?
(a) Financial competition between husbands and wives.
(b) HIV.
(c) The high divorce rates.
(d) The surge in infertility.

Short Answer Questions

1. Chapter 13, "The Wages of the Backlash" shows all of the following undermining the progress women make in the 1970s EXCEPT:

2. What percentage of younger women feel more akin to NOW than to either political party?

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

4. After the pop media launches its assault on single womanhood and increasing divorce numbers, what does Faludi quote as the percent drop in divorce rates?

5. According to Faludi, the pay gap in 1986 is actually what?

(see the answer key)

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