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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 Part 1 of Backlash, "Myths and Flashbacks" which of the following myths is analyzed?
(a) Fertility Booms.
(b) Man Shortages.
(c) Family Upheavals.
(d) Feminist Satisfactions.

2. Faludi makes the point that most women who go mad in 1970s films are repressed and neglected housewives. According to the author, these women do all of the following except what?
(a) Go to other women for advice.
(b) Hear that they should enjoy themselves.
(c) Hear that they should take action and speak up.
(d) Turn to male doctors.

3. Faludi asserts that under the Reagan administration which of the following are pressured to generate data that fit the war on women's independence?
(a) U.S. Census Bureau demographers.
(b) U.S. Department of Education statisticians.
(c) University researchers.
(d) Media organizations receiving federal grants.

4. By the 1980s the media begins to hail the arrival of a "________ generation."
(a) Anti-feminist.
(b) Post-gender.
(c) Anti-gender.
(d) Post-feminist.

5. According to Backlash, the press uses the Harvard-Yale study to scare women into marrying "just to beat the 'odds'." At the same time, they overlook which of the following types of data?
(a) Women cohabitating at rates twice those of 1970.
(b) Unmarried women believing their lives are "as easy" as married friends.
(c) Census figures showing 1.9 million more never-married men than women.
(d) Better paid women are more likely to marry.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Surveys show that an overwhelming majority of women feel there is still a need for all of the following EXCEPT:

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

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

5. During the 1980s all the following firsts are accomplished EXCEPT:

(see the answer key)

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