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

2. When women boo Sheila Levine Is Dead and Living in New York, Faludi sees this as an indication that women want to embrace single womanhood. She says this because of which of the following?
(a) They prefer the ending in the novel in which the author does not feel the need to marry off the single women. They do not like the wedding scenes and prefer more romantic settings.
(b) No answers are correct.
(c) They disagree with the choices of spouses and feel that the writers mismatched the female leads and the men that they marry.
(d) They disagree with the ending in the novel in which the author does not feel the need to marry off the single women.

3. Women send positive letters after the heroine walks away from the altar in which movie?
(a) Fatal Attraction.
(b) Flashdance.
(c) Private Benjamin.
(d) The Graduate.

4. Whose design house loses $9.3 million in 1989?
(a) Christian Lacroix.
(b) Christian Dior.
(c) John Weitz.
(d) Calvin Klein.

5. George Gilder writes that family is the ______________ so males denied this are apt to________________.
(a) Death of the American male, enjoy greater freedom.
(b) Acid test of manhood, devolve into brutes.
(c) All answers are correct.
(d) Greatest gift to men and women, resent the women who will not marry.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the theme of Chapter 8, "Beauty and the Backlash"?

2. 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?

3. An analogy is made between heiress Patricia Hearst and many female characters of the 1980s. Which of the following expresses the comparison?

4. Cries of a "birth dearth" proudly seeks to scare educated white women into keeping up with which of the following groups according to Faludi?

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

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