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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) Harvard.
(d) Yale.

2. Select the woman who becomes a popular Christian speaker and broadcaster, and in 1978 publishes The Spirit-Controlled Woman, calling on fundamentalist women to overcome passivity and develop a public voice--all by and for Jesus.
(a) Phyllis Schlafly.
(b) Connaught ("Connie") Marshner.
(c) Beverly LaHaye.
(d) Faith Whittlesey.

3. The New Right select which of the following adjectives to describe feminism?
(a) Timely.
(b) Satanic.
(c) Insipid.
(d) Unrelenting.

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?
(a) It finds no gender gap--both men and women are putting family over professional advancement.
(b) No answers are correct.
(c) It finds a tiny gender gap--with more women than men putting family over professional advancement.
(d) It finds a tiny gender gap--with more men than women putting family over professional advancement.

5. 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?
(a) 20 percent.
(b) 2.2 percent.
(c) 2.0 percent.
(d) 0.2 percent.

Short Answer Questions

1. In 1984, who is the highest-placed woman in the New Right?

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

3. Unmarried, childless after forty, hooked on work, a 1970s feminist and the third generation in her family to have a low view of "traditional femininity." This is Faludi's description of which market research trend executive?

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

5. Paul Weyrich is defined by Faludi as all the following EXCEPT:

(see the answer key)

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