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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. British directory/screenwriter James Dearden's screenplay makes the adulterous husband more sympathetic; however, according to Faludi, it was intended to be an exploration of what?
(a) The plight of a suburban housewife.
(b) An individual's responsibility for a stranger's suffering.
(c) The family unit and how it can be torn apart.
(d) A middle-aged man's fight for monogamy.

2. Select the book that claims that children are worse off when parents divorce.
(a) The Little Ones.
(b) Parents Choices.
(c) After Divorce.
(d) Second Chance.

3. Newsweek uses the metaphor that women are "______ ________ to be killed by a terrorist" than to _________.
(a) More likely, divorce.
(b) Less likely, divorce.
(c) More likely, marry.
(d) Less likely, marry.

4. 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?
(a) A thirty percent first-year decline for women.
(b) A three to five percent first-year rise for men.
(c) A twenty percent first-year decline for both men and women.
(d) A twenty five percent first-year rise for men.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Which 1980s movie is credited for fueling a "monogamy trend" and "reinvigorating marriage"?

3. Which of the following terms was coined as a part of the backlash?

4. In Part 1 of Backlash, "Myths and Flashbacks" which of the following myths is analyzed?

5. In her timeline of women's cosmetic trends, Faludi states that the bright, healthy, athletic look is popular in which era?

(see the answer key)

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