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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. Both Susan and Stephen Price claim to be ___________ in a ___________ age.
(a) Anti-feminists, anti-feminist.
(b) Feminists, post-feminist.
(c) Feminists, anti-feminist.
(d) No answers are correct.

2. Which researcher finds no statistically significant difference in how the sexes reason morally in nineteen Kohlberg studies?
(a) Zella Luria.
(b) Carol Gilligan.
(c) Susan Brownmiller.
(d) Lawrence Walker.

3. What is the message of chapter 11, "The Backlash Brain Trust: From Neocons to Neofems"?
(a) How large non-profit organizations fund backlash efforts in the 1980.
(b) No answers are correct.
(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.

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?
(a) All answers are correct.
(b) While mothers are prosecuted for refusing doctor's orders, poor mothers are not provided with the services they need to protect the health of their children.
(c) It is the lack of insurance and treatments, not drug addictions, that results in the widening gap between black and white fetal mortality rates.
(d) Doctors refuse treatment to mothers who are poor or are on Medicare.

5. What is the theme of Chapter 8, "Beauty and the Backlash"?
(a) The way in which cosmetics and diet fads are used to subjugate women.
(b) No answers are correct.
(c) The strategies used by cosmetic companies to convince women they must wear makeup to appeal to men and look professional in the workplace.
(d) How the cosmetics industry and plastic surgery complete the "cultural undertow" of the 1980s backlash.

Short Answer Questions

1. Women Who Love Too Much: When You Keep Wishing and Hoping He'll Change is written by which of the following authors?

2. Which of the following magazines uses the Harvard-Yale study to sell minis?

3. Backlash is written in which decade?

4. Retin-A is approved by the FDA to treat _____________ and is eventually marketed to treat ________.

5. In 1988, at every level, writes Faludi, women candidates above the state legislature are at record low numbers and those who run generally lose. What does Faludi blame for this trend?

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