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

2. What is the theme of Chapter 8, "Beauty and the Backlash"?
(a) The strategies used by cosmetic companies to convince women they must wear makeup to appeal to men and look professional in the workplace.
(b) No answers are correct.
(c) The way in which cosmetics and diet fads are used to subjugate women.
(d) How the cosmetics industry and plastic surgery complete the "cultural undertow" of the 1980s backlash.

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

4. Which 1980s movie is credited for fueling a "monogamy trend" and "reinvigorating marriage"?
(a) Flashdance.
(b) Fatal Attraction.
(c) 9 ½- weeks.
(d) Sheila Levine Is Dead and Living in New York.

5. ***Poet Robert Bly speaks to mostly all-male audiences about healthier views of masculinity in the time of all of the following EXCEPT:
(a) Viking Power.
(b) The Iliad.
(c) The Odyssey.
(d) Norsemen.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which organization's findings do not support the idea of a "baby boomlet" among career women?

2. What is Carol Gilligan's criticism of Lawrence Kohlberg's six-stage ladder?

3. According to Faludi, thirty years of data show that men suffer __________ __________ than do women.

4. Faludi states that which of the following is less harmful to women than other forms of plastic surgery?

5. 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?

(see the answer key)

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