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

3. Women's progress in the military falls after the Carter administration had ushered in a _______________ growth rate.
(a) Small.
(b) Undocumented but noteworthy.
(c) Marginal.
(d) 800%.

4. Christine Craft is demoted for which of the following reasons?
(a) Being too unattractive.
(b) Being too old.
(c) All of the Above.
(d) Being insufficiently deferential to men.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Select the magazine that Faludi praises for using federal statistics to accurately portray the career choices of women.

2. Newsweek uses the metaphor that women are "______ ________ to be killed by a terrorist" than to _________.

3. Faludi presents Ms. Magazine as a media outlet that has abandoned its flagship status as a supporter of the feminist movement. She writes that the magazine returns to its roots only after what happens?

4. 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?

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

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