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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 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) Health care.
(c) Educational opportunity.
(d) Equal pay.

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

3. According to Faludi what is the greatest fear of suffrage opponents in the 1910s?
(a) The creation of a "feminist party."
(b) Smaller household sizes among the middle class.
(c) The decline of morality in society.
(d) Political indifference by women.

4. In the late 1980s, circulation of traditional women's magazines is down sharply with Good Housekeeping the worst off and Working Woman the best off. To what does Faludi attribute the relative success of Working Woman?
(a) Working Woman has a better system of distribution.
(b) Executives at Working Woman focus on traditional female roles, which is what readers want.
(c) Surveys show that Working Woman has many more loyal readers.
(d) The magazine is concentrating on career women's needs.

5. What percentage of younger women feel more akin to NOW than to either political party?
(a) 28 percent.
(b) 50 percent.
(c) 75 percent.
(d) 83 percent.

Short Answer Questions

1. Christine Craft is demoted for which of the following reasons?

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

3. Which of the following women is a Harvard-educated lawyer and author of nine books who twice runs for Congress?

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

5. Which of these is not a goal of the New Right?

(see the answer key)

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