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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. According to Backlash, attacking the feminist movement is accomplished by systematically using which of the following?
(a) Popular culture.
(b) No answers are correct.
(c) Research on children's opinions.
(d) Grassroots movements of husbands and fathers.

2. Faludi notes that rarely do the backlash's "force and furor" become as public as when which of the following occurs?
(a) When women's clinics are firebombed.
(b) When prominent politicians deliver speeches against feminism.
(c) When women's clinics are awarded additional funding.
(d) When women's clinics are shut down due to systematic lobbying efforts.

3. Faludi makes the point that most women who go mad in 1970s films are repressed and neglected housewives. According to the author, these women do all of the following except what?
(a) Turn to male doctors.
(b) Hear that they should enjoy themselves.
(c) Hear that they should take action and speak up.
(d) Go to other women for advice.

4. According to Backlash, career women are warned that their choice to delay pregnancy and childbirth are resulting in which of the following?
(a) Greater abortion rates.
(b) Higher miscarriage rates.
(c) Higher incidents of birth defects.
(d) Endometriosis.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Which organization's findings do not support the idea of a "baby boomlet" among career women?

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

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

5. In Angels 88 screenwriter Brad Markowitz has been ordered to do all of the following except:

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