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

2. Which female executive is quoted as saying she hopes companies can treat "career-and-family women" more leniently than "career-primary" women?
(a) Faith Popcorn.
(b) Mary Anne Devanna.
(c) Bonnie Chambers.
(d) Felice Schwartz.

3. When women boo Sheila Levine Is Dead and Living in New York, Faludi sees this as an indication that women want to embrace single womanhood. She says this because of which of the following?
(a) They disagree with the choices of spouses and feel that the writers mismatched the female leads and the men that they marry.
(b) They prefer the ending in the novel in which the author does not feel the need to marry off the single women. They do not like the wedding scenes and prefer more romantic settings.
(c) No answers are correct.
(d) They disagree with the ending in the novel in which the author does not feel the need to marry off the single women.

4. Which book provides the "devastating" statistics that there is a seventy-three percent decline in a woman's standard of living during the first year after divorce versus a man's forty-seven percent increase?
(a) When Divorce Happens.
(b) The Divorce Revolution.
(c) The Force of Divorce.
(d) The Divorce Generation.

5. Faludi presents Ms. Magazine as a media outlet that has abandoned its flagship status as a supporter of the feminist movement. She writes that the magazine returns to its roots only after what happens?
(a) The Office of Domestic Violence is closed.
(b) Congress abandons the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA).
(c) A string of firebombings of abortion clinics in 1987.
(d) The Supreme Court restricts women's reproductive rights in 1989.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. In the book Backlash, attackers of the feminist movement are described as working to put women back in their "proper" place _________________ and __________.

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

4. Which of the following two anti-feminist movies are made into television sitcoms?

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

(see the answer key)

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