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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. According to Faludi, how are female characters treated in morality tales?
(a) Women are not judged according to their lifestyle choices.
(b) Good mothers win, and single women are always envious of those in traditional roles.
(c) Good mothers win, and independent women are punished.
(d) Good mothers are punished, and independent women win.

2. Which book shows Reagan's influence in criticizing the welfare state and pushing volunteerism and individual responsibility?
(a) The Feminine Mystique.
(b) No answers are correct.
(c) The Second Stage.
(d) In a Different Voice.

3. The major networks parade tearfully "penitent unwed" women through the media; Faludi highlights examples from all the following networks EXCEPT:
(a) CBS.
(b) FOX.
(c) ABC.
(d) NBC.

4. During the 1980s all the following firsts are accomplished EXCEPT:
(a) Women outnumber men on unemployment lines.
(b) Women outnumber men in total jobs.
(c) The U.S. Census stops defining head of household as the husband.
(d) Women outnumber men in college attendance.

5. Faludi asserts that the decade's only real infertility epidemic is among young _____ women and is caused largely by the failure to treat ______ early on.
(a) Black, chlamydia.
(b) Black, gonorrhea.
(c) White, HPV.
(d) White, herpes.

Short Answer Questions

1. Faludi writes that all of the following designers try to push femininity onto working women except:

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

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

4. What outlet first declares that women's chances of conceiving drops not after age forty but after thirty?

5. Women send positive letters after the heroine walks away from the altar in which movie?

(see the answer key)

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