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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 book provides the "devastating" statistics that there is a seventy-three percent decline in a woman's standard of living during the first year after divorce versus a man's forty-seven percent increase?
(a) The Force of Divorce.
(b) The Divorce Revolution.
(c) The Divorce Generation.
(d) When Divorce Happens.

2. 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 greater coverage to the feminist struggle than they give to 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 equal coverage to the feminist struggle, protests against the Miss America pageant, and burning bras.
(d) Faludi states that the media gives greater coverage to both issues than they give to the feminist struggle.

3. Backlash is written in which decade?
(a) 1950s.
(b) 1960s.
(c) 1970s.
(d) 1980s.

4. Faludi notes that rarely do the backlash's "force and furor" become as public as when which of the following occurs?
(a) When women's clinics are firebombed.
(b) When women's clinics are awarded additional funding.
(c) When prominent politicians deliver speeches against feminism.
(d) When women's clinics are shut down due to systematic lobbying efforts.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. All of the following are researchers on the Harvard-Yale marriage study EXCEPT:

3. Faludi notes that after Reagan becomes president, which of the following are among the political victims?

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

5. When making an indictment of 1980s films featuring female jobs, Faludi states that these movies do all of the following except:

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