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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 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.

2. In 1984, who is the highest-placed woman in the New Right?
(a) Beverly LaHaye.
(b) Connaught ("Connie") Marshner.
(c) Phyllis Schlafly.
(d) Faith Whittlesey.

3. Newsweek uses the metaphor that women are "______ ________ to be killed by a terrorist" than to _________.
(a) More likely, marry.
(b) Less likely, marry.
(c) Less likely, divorce.
(d) More likely, divorce.

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

5. What three relationship trends increased in the 1950s?
(a) Happy single womanhood, women marrying to conform to societal expectations, and women forcing husbands into counseling to save unhappy marriages.
(b) Unhappy single womanhood, women marrying to conform to societal expectations, and women fleeing unhappy marriages.
(c) Happy single womanhood, women marrying to conform to societal expectations, and women fleeing unhappy marriages.
(d) Happy single womanhood, women marrying on their own terms, and women fleeing unhappy marriages.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Faludi states that in 1986, NBC and Cosmopolitan warn women of three side effects of divorce including:

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

4. 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?

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

(see the answer key)

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