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

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

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

4. 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) Religion.
(c) Recession.
(d) Reaganomics.

5. Which female executive is quoted as saying she hopes companies can treat "career-and-family women" more leniently than "career-primary" women?
(a) Faith Popcorn.
(b) Bonnie Chambers.
(c) Felice Schwartz.
(d) Mary Anne Devanna.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following occur following Reagan's second term in office?

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

3. NBC and ABC use which of the following to undercut women's efforts to organize?

4. What are the findings of the 1987 survey conducted by Fortune magazine on the issue of "bailing out," the term used to describe female MBA students opting for less demanding careers to concentrate on marriage and family?

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?

(see the answer key)

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