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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. Sociologist Lenore Weitzman suggests that the issue of divorce should be handled by doing all of the following EXCEPT:
(a) Focusing on the core question of whether women are better off "protected" or equal.
(b) "Fine-tuning" new divorce laws.
(c) Collecting pre-reform data against which to test her hypothesis.
(d) Rejecting the "charade" of the old system.

2. Faludi suggests that movies are used by men to deal with their emotions concerning women. How does she suggest this is done?
(a) By watching tapes at home men develop bitter grudges and ongoing fears about women.
(b) In dark theaters men work out deep-seated resentments and fears about women.
(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) When watching movies with female partners, men cow them into silence by shouting at the screen.

3. This author dismisses a young woman's objection about women's role in gathering supplies.
(a) Allan Bloom.
(b) Michael Levin.
(c) Warren Farrell.
(d) George Gilder.

4. In Angels 88 screenwriter Brad Markowitz has been ordered to do all of the following except:
(a) Add more bikinis.
(b) Demote the police academy-trained detectives.
(c) Make the detectives incompetent unemployed actresses.
(d) Make the detectives dropouts from the police academy.

5. Select the magazine that Faludi praises for using federal statistics to accurately portray the career choices of women.
(a) No answers are correct.
(b) Esquire.
(c) Fortune.
(d) Newsweek.

Short Answer Questions

1. The chapter "Teen Angels and Unwed Witches" turns to which of the following media?

2. Guess Jeans' advertising campaign is based variously on all the following except:

3. Which of the following two anti-feminist movies are made into television sitcoms?

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

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

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