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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 coining the term "cocooning," Faith Popcorn was seeking to do what according to Faludi?
(a) Highlight the fact that neither men nor women are placing family time over career advancement.
(b) Show men as being more focused on sacrificing career advancement for family time.
(c) Identify a gender-neutral trend of parents leaving the office for being at home.
(d) Support the backlash's efforts to highlight slight changes in women returning to traditional roles.

2. Part 2 of the book The Backlash in Popular Culture looks at trends in all the following media EXCEPT:
(a) Magazines.
(b) Internet.
(c) Print.
(d) Television.

3. Backlash is written in which decade?
(a) 1970s.
(b) 1980s.
(c) 1950s.
(d) 1960s.

4. Faludi notes that after Reagan becomes president, which of the following are among the political victims?
(a) Newspapers.
(b) The Office of Domestic Violence.
(c) The Equal Rights Amendment.
(d) The Vice President.

5. 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) Go to other women for advice.
(c) Hear that they should take action and speak up.
(d) Hear that they should enjoy themselves.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. 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?

3. In 1989 which Ivy League university commissioned a survey that confirmed the findings of the Fortune magazine research on female MBA students "bailing out"?

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

5. Another blow to the feminist movement comes when the Supreme Court moves towards which of the following actions?

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