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

2. Faludi suggests that movies are used by men to deal with their emotions concerning women. How does she suggest this is done?
(a) In dark theaters men work out deep-seated resentments and fears about women.
(b) When watching movies with female partners, men cow them into silence by shouting at the screen.
(c) They avoid movies in which women are not treated equally and support movies that show they are progressive and in support of the feminist movement.
(d) By watching tapes at home men develop bitter grudges and ongoing fears about women.

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

4. _________ and ________, two demographers at the Census Bureau, re-run the Harvard-Yale study using 1980 data and find a major flaw in the study and its calculations.
(a) Jeanne Moorman, Robert Fay.
(b) David Bloom, Jeanne Moorman.
(c) Patricia Craig, Neil Bennett.
(d) Neil Bennett, David Bloom.

5. Who does Faludi cite as the most famous feminist to retract her views?
(a) Camille Paglia.
(b) Susan Brownmiller.
(c) Betty Friedan.
(d) Carol Gilligan.

Short Answer Questions

1. This fragrance initially "celebrates women's liberation" but eventually ran campaigns in which under-aged models were used.

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

3. According to Faludi, the 1980s are awash with books about women's special virtues of:

4. As the health care industry continues to convince women they need medical attention, the market increases for which of these services?

5. A book claims that during the first year after divorce, a woman's standard of living declines by seventy-three percent while a man's increases by forty-seven percent. This claim is challenged by economists Saul Hoffman and Greg Duncan who have found which of the following statistics over twenty years?

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