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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. 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.

2. When making an indictment of 1980s films featuring female jobs, Faludi states that these movies do all of the following except:
(a) Showing why women are better off staying home.
(b) Fail to indict a demoralizing marketplace.
(c) Show female jobs as tedious and supportive of male enterprises.
(d) Show women as recognizing the sacrifices of being working women, but highly satisfied with their choices.

3. Which of the following two anti-feminist movies are made into television sitcoms?
(a) No answers are correct.
(b) Private Benjamin and Fatal Attraction.
(c) Baby Boom and Private Benjamin.
(d) Fatal Attraction and Baby Boom.

4. What three relationship trends increased in the 1950s?
(a) Unhappy single womanhood, women marrying to conform to societal expectations, and women fleeing unhappy marriages.
(b) Happy single womanhood, women marrying to conform to societal expectations, and women fleeing unhappy marriages.
(c) Happy single womanhood, women marrying on their own terms, and women fleeing unhappy marriages.
(d) Happy single womanhood, women marrying to conform to societal expectations, and women forcing husbands into counseling to save unhappy marriages.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The major networks parade tearfully "penitent unwed" women through the media; Faludi highlights examples from all the following networks EXCEPT:

2. Unmarried, childless after forty, hooked on work, a 1970s feminist and the third generation in her family to have a low view of "traditional femininity." This is Faludi's description of which market research trend executive?

3. Cries of a "birth dearth" proudly seeks to scare educated white women into keeping up with which of the following groups according to Faludi?

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

5. An analogy is made between heiress Patricia Hearst and many female characters of the 1980s. Which of the following expresses the comparison?

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