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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. What is the message of chapter 11, "The Backlash Brain Trust: From Neocons to Neofems"?
(a) No answers are correct.
(b) How large non-profit organizations fund backlash efforts in the 1980.
(c) How a variety of "experts" both frighten and confuse people about feminism in the 1980s.
(d) How laypeople are used by the backlash to discredit feminism in the 1980s.

2. 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 shut down due to systematic lobbying efforts.
(c) When women's clinics are awarded additional funding.
(d) When prominent politicians deliver speeches against feminism.

3. In 1989 which Ivy League university commissioned a survey that confirmed the findings of the Fortune magazine research on female MBA students "bailing out"?
(a) Stanford.
(b) Harvard.
(c) Columbia.
(d) Yale.

4. Child abuse laws are extended to the fetus and "fetal neglect" bills flood legislatures as a result of which strategy?
(a) The decision to provide fathers with a strategy to protect their unborn children.
(b) The policy of allowing mothers to take precedence over the fetus.
(c) An attempt to humanize the fetus and neutralize the mother.
(d) To reduce the number of US individuals addicted to drugs.

5. Fatal and Fetal Visions deals with how the_________ serve the backlash.
(a) Newspapers.
(b) Television.
(c) Movies.
(d) Magazines.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following women bets a male reporter that she will marry by forty?

2. Which female executive is quoted as saying she hopes companies can treat "career-and-family women" more leniently than "career-primary" women?

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?

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

5. According to Toni Grant, self-assertion for women is abnormal and relinquishing control is naturally feminine. Therefore, when women attempt to control their own destiny they are in fact showing that they are _____________.

(see the answer key)

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