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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 4: Chapter 14.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Yankelovich Monitor surveys find that "masculinity" is often defined as a man being a "good provider." This has negative implications for which of the following aspects of the feminist movement?
(a) Women's choices of fashion and clothing.
(b) Women's increasing presence in the political arena.
(c) Women's desires to control their own fertility.
(d) Women's drive for economic equality.

2. According to Backlash, career women are warned that their choice to delay pregnancy and childbirth are resulting in which of the following?
(a) Higher miscarriage rates.
(b) Greater abortion rates.
(c) Endometriosis.
(d) Higher incidents of birth defects.

3. Which of these is not a goal of the New Right?
(a) Revocation of the Equal Pay Act.
(b) All answers are correct.
(c) Censoring of birth control information.
(d) A ban on all abortions.

4. In 1988, Robert Filoso defines the "New Generation" of female beauty with mannequins that are:
(a) Flawless, slender, and shorter.
(b) Taller, more slender, and poutier.
(c) Flawless, shorter, bustier, and wasp-waisted.
(d) All answers are correct.

5. According to Faludi, male crews comment that there are "too many women" on the job. This is reinforced by management's tendency to which of the following?
(a) Demote men while promoting women.
(b) Show preferential treatment to women in meetings.
(c) Blame affirmative action when rejecting male applicants.
(d) All answers are correct.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Faludi what was one of the radical suggestions made by Franham and Lundberg's Modern Women?

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

3. According to Backlash, attacking the feminist movement is accomplished by systematically using which of the following?

4. Faludi asserts that the 1980s and early 90s legal attacks against pregnant mothers could not be motivated by a desire to protect fetuses because at the same time which of the following policies was in place?

5. In 1980 sex discrimination and other kinds of complaints filed before which agency climbs twenty-five to forty percent?

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