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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 1989 which Ivy League university commissioned a survey that confirmed the findings of the Fortune magazine research on female MBA students "bailing out"?
(a) Columbia.
(b) Stanford.
(c) Yale.
(d) Harvard.

2. In the summer following the 1988 election, which women's organization held a conference at which a motion passes to discuss a third political party?
(a) Concerned Women for America.
(b) Eagle Forum.
(c) National Organization for Women.
(d) Women's Agenda Conference.

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

4. In the 1980s, Faludi makes the point that women are marginalized and can ask for childcare and parental leave only if they forego seeking all of the following except:
(a) Reproductive freedom.
(b) Educational opportunity.
(c) Equal pay.
(d) Health care.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The federal "reductions in force" hit women over which level twice as badly as men?

2. Women become a majority of the electorate in 1984. In 1986 how do they influence national politics?

3. In 1980 sex discrimination and other kinds of complaints filed before which agency climbs twenty-five to forty percent?

4. Which organization's findings do not support the idea of a "baby boomlet" among career women?

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

(see the answer key)

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