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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. Television assaults the women's movement less than Hollywood movies; Faludi states that this is because of what factor?
(a) Hollywood movies have greater budgets and more freedom with their creativity.
(b) There are more women executives in the television industry who support the women's movement.
(c) Women are a majority of viewers and are advertisers' prime target.
(d) Television producers do not wish to tackle these issues through on-screen programming.

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

3. According to Faludi in Chapter 1, all of the following attack feminists EXCEPT:
(a) Journalists.
(b) Clergy.
(c) Politicians.
(d) School teachers.

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

5. Which organization's findings do not support the idea of a "baby boomlet" among career women?
(a) Annual surveys by professional organizations.
(b) Census Bureau data.
(c) Time magazine research.
(d) No answers are correct.

Short Answer Questions

1. The term "strong-armed into motherhood" is used by Faludi to describe which of the following movies?

2. 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?

3. In coining the term "cocooning," Faith Popcorn was seeking to do what according to Faludi?

4. Why do politicians, journalists, and business leaders claim that women need no more help advancing?

5. Fatal and Fetal Visions deals with how the_________ serve the backlash.

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