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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. Faludi suggests that Western European "social feminists" have a better record with childcare and maternity leave because of which of the following?
(a) Europeans are more in tuned with the needs of women.
(b) The European feminist movement is more effective in attaining its goals.
(c) The American feminist movement has been undercut by the backlash.
(d) Postwar European governments must rebuild their populations.

2. Which of the following terms was coined as a part of the backlash?
(a) Mommy syndrome.
(b) Husband shortage.
(c) Feminism movement.
(d) Biological clock.

3. What outlet first declares that women's chances of conceiving drops not after age forty but after thirty?
(a) The New England Journal of Medicine.
(b) U.S. National Center for Health Statistics.
(c) French researchers Schwartz and Mayaux.
(d) U.S. Census Bureau.

4. When making an indictment of 1980s films featuring female jobs, Faludi states that these movies do all of the following except:
(a) Showing why women are better off staying home.
(b) Fail to indict a demoralizing marketplace.
(c) Show women as recognizing the sacrifices of being working women, but highly satisfied with their choices.
(d) Show female jobs as tedious and supportive of male enterprises.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the Faludi describe the media's treatment of protests against the Miss America pageant and burning bras?

2. All of the following are researchers on the Harvard-Yale marriage study EXCEPT:

3. 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?

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

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

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