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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. Why does Faludi believe Warren Farrell's loses his enthusiasm for the feminist movement?
(a) All answers are correct.
(b) Feminism is fading in the media.
(c) He is tired of defending his position.
(d) Women are unhappy that he is a spokesman for the movement.

2. Which of the following two individuals does Faludi highlight as being unmarried while preaching that women should marry?
(a) Michael Levin and Warren Farrell.
(b) All these individuals are married.
(c) Robert Bly and Sylvia Ann Hewlett.
(d) George Gilder and Allan Bloom.

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

4. 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) By watching tapes at home men develop bitter grudges and ongoing fears about women.
(d) 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.

5. Unmarried, childless after forty, hooked on work, a 1970s feminist and the third generation in her family to have a low view of "traditional femininity." This is Faludi's description of which market research trend executive?
(a) Mary Anne Devanna.
(b) No answers are correct.
(c) Faith Popcorn.
(d) Felice Schwartz.

Short Answer Questions

1. In coining the term "cocooning," Faith Popcorn was seeking to do what according to Faludi?

2. Whose design house loses $9.3 million in 1989?

3. Newsweek uses the metaphor that women are "______ ________ to be killed by a terrorist" than to _________.

4. Victoria Secret was intended to be the:

5. Faludi asserts that under the Reagan administration which of the following are pressured to generate data that fit the war on women's independence?

(see the answer key)

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