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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. Faludi notes that after Reagan becomes president, which of the following are among the political victims?
(a) The Equal Rights Amendment.
(b) Newspapers.
(c) The Vice President.
(d) The Office of Domestic Violence.

2. Faludi suggests that movies are used by men to deal with their emotions concerning women. How does she suggest this is done?
(a) By watching tapes at home men develop bitter grudges and ongoing fears about women.
(b) When watching movies with female partners, men cow them into silence by shouting at the screen.
(c) They avoid movies in which women are not treated equally and support movies that show they are progressive and in support of the feminist movement.
(d) In dark theaters men work out deep-seated resentments and fears about women.

3. The major networks parade tearfully "penitent unwed" women through the media; Faludi highlights examples from all the following networks EXCEPT:
(a) ABC.
(b) FOX.
(c) NBC.
(d) CBS.

4. According to Faludi, how are female characters treated in morality tales?
(a) Good mothers are punished, and independent women win.
(b) Good mothers win, and single women are always envious of those in traditional roles.
(c) Good mothers win, and independent women are punished.
(d) Women are not judged according to their lifestyle choices.

5. _________ and ________, two demographers at the Census Bureau, re-run the Harvard-Yale study using 1980 data and find a major flaw in the study and its calculations.
(a) Jeanne Moorman, Robert Fay.
(b) Patricia Craig, Neil Bennett.
(c) Neil Bennett, David Bloom.
(d) David Bloom, Jeanne Moorman.

Short Answer Questions

1. Unmarried, childless after forty, hooked on work, a 1970s feminist and the third generation in her family to have a low view of "traditional femininity." This is Faludi's description of which market research trend executive?

2. Television assaults the women's movement less than Hollywood movies; Faludi states that this is because of what factor?

3. Faludi asserts that equal attention is given to _______ family size in whites and ________ family size among blacks.

4. In Part 1 of Backlash, "Myths and Flashbacks" which of the following myths is analyzed?

5. Faludi states that in 1986, NBC and Cosmopolitan warn women of three side effects of divorce including:

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