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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. Unmarried, childless after forty, hooked on work, a 1970s feminist and the third generation in her family to have a low view of "traditional femininity." This is Faludi's description of which market research trend executive?
(a) Faith Popcorn.
(b) Mary Anne Devanna.
(c) Felice Schwartz.
(d) No answers are correct.

2. The federal "reductions in force" hit women over which level twice as badly as men?
(a) G.S. 5.
(b) G.S. 9.
(c) All answers are correct.
(d) G.S. 11.

3. Which author publishes a 922-page compendium in which 4,500 women despair about not being treated as equals by mates?
(a) No answers are correct.
(b) Dr. Srully Blotnick.
(c) Patricia Craig.
(d) Shere Hite.

4. During the 1980s all the following firsts are accomplished EXCEPT:
(a) Women outnumber men in total jobs.
(b) The U.S. Census stops defining head of household as the husband.
(c) Women outnumber men in college attendance.
(d) Women outnumber men on unemployment lines.

5. According to Faludi, surveys show which of the following types of women ranking highest in mental health?
(a) Homemakers.
(b) Students.
(c) Professionals.
(d) Mothers.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Faludi, Randall Terry is a leading figure in the antiabortion movement and his emotional baggage dates from which of the following?

2. In the late 1980s, circulation of traditional women's magazines is down sharply with Good Housekeeping the worst off and Working Woman the best off. To what does Faludi attribute the relative success of Working Woman?

3. Sylvia Ann Hewlett worked at which university?

4. Faludi claims that the requirement of parental consent results in which of the following statistics?

5. Which author uses fairy tales to generalize about men and women without offending anyone?

(see the answer key)

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