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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 Office of Domestic Violence.
(b) The Vice President.
(c) Newspapers.
(d) The Equal Rights Amendment.

2. What three relationship trends increased in the 1950s?
(a) Happy single womanhood, women marrying to conform to societal expectations, and women forcing husbands into counseling to save unhappy marriages.
(b) Unhappy single womanhood, women marrying to conform to societal expectations, and women fleeing unhappy marriages.
(c) Happy single womanhood, women marrying to conform to societal expectations, and women fleeing unhappy marriages.
(d) Happy single womanhood, women marrying on their own terms, and women fleeing unhappy marriages.

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

4. Which female executive is quoted as saying she hopes companies can treat "career-and-family women" more leniently than "career-primary" women?
(a) Mary Anne Devanna.
(b) Faith Popcorn.
(c) Bonnie Chambers.
(d) Felice Schwartz.

5. British directory/screenwriter James Dearden's screenplay makes the adulterous husband more sympathetic; however, according to Faludi, it was intended to be an exploration of what?
(a) The family unit and how it can be torn apart.
(b) The plight of a suburban housewife.
(c) An individual's responsibility for a stranger's suffering.
(d) A middle-aged man's fight for monogamy.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following two anti-feminist movies are made into television sitcoms?

2. The author writes that the feminist movement is blamed for all the evil in ________ society.

3. An analogy is made between heiress Patricia Hearst and many female characters of the 1980s. Which of the following expresses the comparison?

4. Why do politicians, journalists, and business leaders claim that women need no more help advancing?

5. How does the Faludi describe the media's treatment of protests against the Miss America pageant and burning bras?

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