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

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) Eagle Forum.
(b) National Organization for Women.
(c) Concerned Women for America.
(d) Women's Agenda Conference.

3. According to Faludi, the pay gap in 1986 is actually what?
(a) $.64 cents on the dollar.
(b) $.70 on the dollar.
(c) No answers are correct.
(d) $.20 on the dollar.

4. Part 3, "Origins of a Reaction: Backlash Movers, Shakers, and Thinkers," begins by looking at "The Politics of Resentment: The ___________ War on Women."
(a) American Right's.
(b) National Anti-Feminist Movement.
(c) Christian Right's.
(d) New Right's.

5. 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) Stanford.
(b) Harvard.
(c) Yale.
(d) Columbia.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the 1980 presidential election, the only clear differentiation from the Democrats comes when the Republicans do what according to Faludi?

2. Which of the following companies chooses to fight the EEOC's case brought against it?

3. Which female executive is quoted as saying she hopes companies can treat "career-and-family women" more leniently than "career-primary" women?

4. In 1987, what does NBC identify as the possible "yuppie disease of the '80s"?

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

(see the answer key)

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