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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) Dr. Srully Blotnick.
(c) Patricia Craig.
(d) Shere Hite.

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

3. An analogy is made between heiress Patricia Hearst and many female characters of the 1980s. Which of the following expresses the comparison?
(a) Having two heavy weights in each hand to symbolize the choice between marriage and single womanhood.
(b) Being bound, blindfolded, and lacking identity to symbolize having to flee the office for marriage and motherhood.
(c) Carrying a light load in a backpack to symbolize the ease with which committed women face motherhood.
(d) No answers are correct.

4. How does the Faludi describe the media's treatment of protests against the Miss America pageant and burning bras?
(a) Faludi states that the media gives equal coverage to the feminist struggle, protests against the Miss America pageant, and burning bras.
(b) Faludi states that the media gives little coverage to both issues.
(c) Faludi states that the media gives greater coverage to both issues than they give to the feminist struggle.
(d) Faludi states that the media gives greater coverage to the feminist struggle than they give to protests against the Miss America pageant and burning bras.

5. Which organization's findings do not support the idea of a "baby boomlet" among career women?
(a) Census Bureau data.
(b) No answers are correct.
(c) Annual surveys by professional organizations.
(d) Time magazine research.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Faludi in Chapter 1, all of the following attack feminists EXCEPT:

2. 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?

3. According to Backlash, attacking the feminist movement is accomplished by systematically using which of the following?

4. Faludi suggests that movies are used by men to deal with their emotions concerning women. How does she suggest this is done?

5. Backlash is written in which decade?

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