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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. Which of the following women bets a male reporter that she will marry by forty?
(a) Elia Kazan.
(b) Cecelia Gouge.
(c) Patsy Howell.
(d) Diane Doe.

2. The term "strong-armed into motherhood" is used by Faludi to describe which of the following movies?
(a) Baby Boom.
(b) Broadcast News.
(c) Fatal Attraction.
(d) Crossing Delancey.

3. How does Women's Wear Daily serve the feminist movement and the fashion industry?
(a) It convinces women to buy into overly feminine and exploitive clothing to work; male fashion designers create these clothing lines and women buy the attire.
(b) It convinces women to buy into overly feminine and exploitive clothing to work; male fashion designers attempt to fight against the trend, but this is what women want to buy.
(c) It tries unsuccessfully to convince women to buy into overly feminine and exploitive clothing to work; male fashion designers attempt to fight against the trend, but this is what women want to buy.
(d) It tries unsuccessfully to convince women to buy into overly feminine and exploitive clothing to work, male fashion designers create these clothing lines and women do not buy the attire.

4. Cries of a "birth dearth" proudly seeks to scare educated white women into keeping up with which of the following groups according to Faludi?
(a) Paupers, fools, and foreigners.
(b) Their married, child-bearing peers.
(c) Families in other industrialized nations.
(d) No answers are correct.

5. In Part 1 of Backlash, "Myths and Flashbacks" which of the following myths is analyzed?
(a) Man Shortages.
(b) Feminist Satisfactions.
(c) Fertility Booms.
(d) Family Upheavals.

Short Answer Questions

1. In 1988, Robert Filoso defines the "New Generation" of female beauty with mannequins that are:

2. What is the theme of Chapter 8, "Beauty and the Backlash"?

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

4. Advertisers tell women career success is harming their complexions and causing all of the following except:

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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