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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) Add more bikinis.
(c) Demote the police academy-trained detectives.
(d) Make the detectives incompetent unemployed actresses.

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

3. 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?
(a) A twenty percent first-year decline for both men and women.
(b) A three to five percent first-year rise for men.
(c) A thirty percent first-year decline for women.
(d) A twenty five percent first-year rise for men.

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

5. Which of the following two anti-feminist movies are made into television sitcoms?
(a) Private Benjamin and Fatal Attraction.
(b) Fatal Attraction and Baby Boom.
(c) No answers are correct.
(d) Baby Boom and Private Benjamin.

Short Answer Questions

1. By the 1980s the media begins to hail the arrival of a "________ generation."

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

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

4. According to Faludi, how are female characters treated in morality tales?

5. Backlash is written in which decade?

(see the answer key)

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