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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. Which author publishes a 922-page compendium in which 4,500 women despair about not being treated as equals by mates?
(a) No answers are correct.
(b) Shere Hite.
(c) Patricia Craig.
(d) Dr. Srully Blotnick.

2. Faludi asserts that a major objective of the attack on feminism is the desire to:
(a) Encourage women to band together.
(b) Break women's political will.
(c) Return to capitalist traditions.
(d) Destroy the family bond.

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

4. Women send positive letters after the heroine walks away from the altar in which movie?
(a) Private Benjamin.
(b) The Graduate.
(c) Fatal Attraction.
(d) Flashdance.

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) A string of firebombings of abortion clinics in 1987.
(b) The Supreme Court restricts women's reproductive rights in 1989.
(c) The Office of Domestic Violence is closed.
(d) Congress abandons the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA).

Short Answer Questions

1. After Reagan's accession to the presidency, Faludi writes that the two political parties do which of the following?

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

3. According to Faludi, men's opposition to women's rights and the feminist movement is a source of:

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

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

(see the answer key)

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