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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. Which of the following claims to be the "media's number one psychologist," broadcasting live, nationwide, from Los Angeles?
(a) Robin Norwood.
(b) Teresa Bernardez.
(c) Toni Grant.
(d) Karen Horney.

2. According to Faludi, cosmetic companies try to increase sales by ___________ their products.
(a) Reducing.
(b) Augmenting.
(c) Cleaning up.
(d) Medicalizing.

3. In 1987 what percent of single women accept bearing and raising children outside wedlock?
(a) 90 percent.
(b) 29 percent.
(c) 55 percent.
(d) 87 percent.

4. Who does Faludi cite as the most famous feminist to retract her views?
(a) Carol Gilligan.
(b) Betty Friedan.
(c) Camille Paglia.
(d) Susan Brownmiller.

5. After Reagan's accession to the presidency, Faludi writes that the two political parties do which of the following?
(a) Begin expressing diverging views about women's rights.
(b) Both oppose the women's rights movement with equal vigor.
(c) Each present separate platforms for advancing women's rights.
(d) Both stop talking about women's rights.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Which of the following women is cited in the book as being consistently shut out of the Emmys, disapproved of in public by George Bush, and having a nationwide club formed just to hate and revile her?

3. The Price's use all of the following accommodations to a feminist lifestyle except which of the following?

4. 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?

5. The term "strong-armed into motherhood" is used by Faludi to describe which of the following movies?

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