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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. In the 1980s, Faludi makes the point that women are marginalized and can ask for childcare and parental leave only if they forego seeking all of the following except:
(a) Health care.
(b) Reproductive freedom.
(c) Educational opportunity.
(d) Equal pay.

2. Who casts his wife in the demeaning role of an unsmiling female doctor who clutches her book about obsession and compulsion?
(a) David Mamet.
(b) Michael Douglas.
(c) James Dearden.
(d) Adrian Lyne.

3. When making an indictment of 1980s films featuring female jobs, Faludi states that these movies do all of the following except:
(a) Show female jobs as tedious and supportive of male enterprises.
(b) Showing why women are better off staying home.
(c) Fail to indict a demoralizing marketplace.
(d) Show women as recognizing the sacrifices of being working women, but highly satisfied with their choices.

4. Medical journals define codependency as individuals doing which of the following?
(a) Being unable to live without each other.
(b) Selecting dysfunctional life partners.
(c) Ending unfulfilling relationships.
(d) Choosing to live with more than one adult partner.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Sociologist Lenore Weitzman suggests that the issue of divorce should be handled by doing all of the following EXCEPT:

2. Women's progress in the military falls after the Carter administration had ushered in a _______________ growth rate.

3. Guess Jeans' advertising campaign is based variously on all the following except:

4. When women boo Sheila Levine Is Dead and Living in New York, Faludi sees this as an indication that women want to embrace single womanhood. She says this because of which of the following?

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?

(see the answer key)

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