1. "It's All in Your Mind" looks at ¬¬_______________ in the 1980s backlash.
(a) Male bashing.
(b) Child-rearing.
(c) Popular psychology.
(d) Undergraduate education.

2. Grant claims that Gilligan's In a Different Voice teaches her that the "______________" is the essence of being a woman.
(a) Quest for romance.
(b) All answers are correct.
(c) Discovery of self.
(d) Embracing of one's femininity.

3. Sociologist Lenore Weitzman suggests that the issue of divorce should be handled by doing all of the following EXCEPT:
(a) Focusing on the core question of whether women are better off "protected" or equal.
(b) "Fine-tuning" new divorce laws.
(c) Collecting pre-reform data against which to test her hypothesis.
(d) Rejecting the "charade" of the old system.

4. What outlet first declares that women's chances of conceiving drops not after age forty but after thirty?
(a) U.S. Census Bureau.
(b) U.S. National Center for Health Statistics.
(c) French researchers Schwartz and Mayaux.
(d) The New England Journal of Medicine.

5. Newsweek uses the metaphor that women are "______ ________ to be killed by a terrorist" than to _________.
(a) Less likely, marry.
(b) More likely, divorce.
(c) More likely, marry.
(d) Less likely, divorce.

Short Answer Questions

1. In 1989 which Ivy League university commissioned a survey that confirmed the findings of the Fortune magazine research on female MBA students "bailing out"?

2. Paul Weyrich is defined by Faludi as all the following EXCEPT:

3. According to Faludi, surveys show which of the following types of women ranking highest in mental health?

4. Which of the following network replacements is not accurate?

5. According to Faludi what is the greatest fear of suffrage opponents in the 1910s?

(see the answer key)

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