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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 3: Chapter 11.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Television assaults the women's movement less than Hollywood movies; Faludi states that this is because of what factor?
(a) Television producers do not wish to tackle these issues through on-screen programming.
(b) Women are a majority of viewers and are advertisers' prime target.
(c) There are more women executives in the television industry who support the women's movement.
(d) Hollywood movies have greater budgets and more freedom with their creativity.

2. Fatal and Fetal Visions deals with how the_________ serve the backlash.
(a) Television.
(b) Magazines.
(c) Newspapers.
(d) Movies.

3. Select the book that claims that children are worse off when parents divorce.
(a) Parents Choices.
(b) The Little Ones.
(c) After Divorce.
(d) Second Chance.

4. How does the Faludi describe the media's treatment of protests against the Miss America pageant and burning bras?
(a) Faludi states that the media gives greater coverage to both issues than they give to the feminist struggle.
(b) Faludi states that the media gives equal coverage to the feminist struggle, protests against the Miss America pageant, and burning bras.
(c) Faludi states that the media gives little coverage to both issues.
(d) Faludi states that the media gives greater coverage to the feminist struggle than they give to protests against the Miss America pageant and burning bras.

5. 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?
(a) Congress abandons the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA).
(b) The Supreme Court restricts women's reproductive rights in 1989.
(c) A string of firebombings of abortion clinics in 1987.
(d) The Office of Domestic Violence is closed.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following two anti-feminist movies are made into television sitcoms?

2. George Gilder writes that family is the ______________ so males denied this are apt to________________.

3. The term "strong-armed into motherhood" is used by Faludi to describe which of the following movies?

4. In her timeline of women's cosmetic trends, Faludi states that the bright, healthy, athletic look is popular in which era?

5. Who casts his wife in the demeaning role of an unsmiling female doctor who clutches her book about obsession and compulsion?

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