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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. By questioning whether the "backlash" is a new phenomenon, some social observers admit that there has been:
(a) Long-standing support for women's rights.
(b) A culture of support for working mothers.
(c) An undercurrent of resentment against working fathers.
(d) Long-standing resistance to women's rights.

2. Fatal and Fetal Visions deals with how the_________ serve the backlash.
(a) Magazines.
(b) Television.
(c) Newspapers.
(d) Movies.

3. Which of the following terms was coined as a part of the backlash?
(a) Husband shortage.
(b) Mommy syndrome.
(c) Biological clock.
(d) Feminism movement.

4. In the American version of the French film Three Men and a Baby, what significant change is made to the story line?
(a) It adds a dour lawyer, Rebecca, who lacks both maternal and romantic "juices."
(b) It makes all of the men happy to have a baby to take raise.
(c) It has the men raising one baby rather than twins.
(d) It includes the remorseful mother returning to take care of the baby and marry one of the fathers.

5. Who casts his wife in the demeaning role of an unsmiling female doctor who clutches her book about obsession and compulsion?
(a) Michael Douglas.
(b) David Mamet.
(c) James Dearden.
(d) Adrian Lyne.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. The author writes that the feminist movement is blamed for all the evil in ________ society.

3. _________ and ________, two demographers at the Census Bureau, re-run the Harvard-Yale study using 1980 data and find a major flaw in the study and its calculations.

4. Faludi notes that after Reagan becomes president, which of the following are among the political victims?

5. All of the following are researchers on the Harvard-Yale marriage study EXCEPT:

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