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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2: Chapters 5-6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Another blow to the feminist movement comes when the Supreme Court moves towards which of the following actions?
(a) Removing gender-based arguments from its hearings.
(b) Reconsidering abortion rights.
(c) Removing all gender-neutral policies from public laws.
(d) Striking down the Equal Rights Amendment.

2. Why do politicians, journalists, and business leaders claim that women need no more help advancing?
(a) They have returned to traditional roles.
(b) They have come of age.
(c) They are in the infancy of their independence.
(d) They have surpassed men in their accomplishments.

3. Faludi states that in 1986, NBC and Cosmopolitan warn women of three side effects of divorce including:
(a) Loneliness, depression, and childlessness.
(b) An empty bank account, bitterness, and loneliness.
(c) Childlessness, bitterness, and financial ruin.
(d) Depression, loneliness, and an empty bank account.

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) No answers are correct.
(c) Their married, child-bearing peers.
(d) Families in other industrialized nations.

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

Short Answer 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?

2. When women boo Sheila Levine Is Dead and Living in New York, Faludi sees this as an indication that women want to embrace single womanhood. She says this because of which of the following?

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

4. Women send positive letters after the heroine walks away from the altar in which movie?

5. According to Faludi in Chapter 1, all of the following attack feminists EXCEPT:

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