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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 Angels 88 screenwriter Brad Markowitz has been ordered to do all of the following except:
(a) Make the detectives dropouts from the police academy.
(b) Demote the police academy-trained detectives.
(c) Add more bikinis.
(d) Make the detectives incompetent unemployed actresses.

2. Faludi asserts that the decade's only real infertility epidemic is among young _____ women and is caused largely by the failure to treat ______ early on.
(a) Black, chlamydia.
(b) White, herpes.
(c) Black, gonorrhea.
(d) White, HPV.

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 ending in the novel in which the author does not feel the need to marry off the single women.
(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) They disagree with the choices of spouses and feel that the writers mismatched the female leads and the men that they marry.
(d) No answers are correct.

4. After Reagan's accession to the presidency, Faludi writes that the two political parties do which of the following?
(a) Both oppose the women's rights movement with equal vigor.
(b) Both stop talking about women's rights.
(c) Begin expressing diverging views about women's rights.
(d) Each present separate platforms for advancing women's rights.

5. All of the following are researchers on the Harvard-Yale marriage study EXCEPT:
(a) Jeanne Moorman.
(b) David Bloom.
(c) Patricia Craig.
(d) Neil Bennett.

Short Answer Questions

1. The backlash seeks to divide and conquer by pitting women against each other. Faludi describes all of the following battle lines EXCEPT:

2. Which 1980s movie is credited for fueling a "monogamy trend" and "reinvigorating marriage"?

3. 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?

4. Women send positive letters after the heroine walks away from the altar in which movie?

5. Surveys show that an overwhelming majority of women feel there is still a need for all of the following EXCEPT:

(see the answer key)

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