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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. According to Faludi, male crews comment that there are "too many women" on the job. This is reinforced by management's tendency to which of the following?
(a) All answers are correct.
(b) Show preferential treatment to women in meetings.
(c) Blame affirmative action when rejecting male applicants.
(d) Demote men while promoting women.

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?
(a) The magazine is concentrating on career women's needs.
(b) Surveys show that Working Woman has many more loyal readers.
(c) Executives at Working Woman focus on traditional female roles, which is what readers want.
(d) Working Woman has a better system of distribution.

3. Paul Weyrich is defined by Faludi as all the following EXCEPT:
(a) Viewing women's liberation as a dangerous lie.
(b) Considering feminism as a dead issue.
(c) Founder of the Heritage Foundation.
(d) The "Father of the New Right."

4. _________ and ________, two demographers at the Census Bureau, re-run the Harvard-Yale study using 1980 data and find a major flaw in the study and its calculations.
(a) David Bloom, Jeanne Moorman.
(b) Neil Bennett, David Bloom.
(c) Jeanne Moorman, Robert Fay.
(d) Patricia Craig, Neil Bennett.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Faludi identified which of the following books as the most widely quoted and influential feminist work in the 1980s?

2. Which of the following women is one of the co-authors of the book No More Lonely Nights?

3. Newsweek uses the metaphor that women are "______ ________ to be killed by a terrorist" than to _________.

4. What is Carol Gilligan's criticism of Lawrence Kohlberg's six-stage ladder?

5. Chapter 13, "The Wages of the Backlash" shows all of the following undermining the progress women make in the 1970s EXCEPT:

(see the answer key)

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