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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 in Chapter 1, all of the following attack feminists EXCEPT:
(a) Clergy.
(b) School teachers.
(c) Politicians.
(d) Journalists.

2. What is the theme of Chapter 8, "Beauty and the Backlash"?
(a) The strategies used by cosmetic companies to convince women they must wear makeup to appeal to men and look professional in the workplace.
(b) How the cosmetics industry and plastic surgery complete the "cultural undertow" of the 1980s backlash.
(c) No answers are correct.
(d) The way in which cosmetics and diet fads are used to subjugate women.

3. _________ 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) Jeanne Moorman, Robert Fay.
(c) Patricia Craig, Neil Bennett.
(d) Neil Bennett, David Bloom.

4. Feminists outflank the antiabortion "warriors" at which of the following Sacramento family-planning clinics?
(a) Operation clinic.
(b) Operation salvation.
(c) Operation Hope.
(d) Operation Rescue.

5. What percentage of younger women feel more akin to NOW than to either political party?
(a) 83 percent.
(b) 50 percent.
(c) 75 percent.
(d) 28 percent.

Short Answer Questions

1. The author writes that the feminist movement is blamed for all the evil in ________ society.

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. According to Backlash, the press uses the Harvard-Yale study to scare women into marrying "just to beat the 'odds'." At the same time, they overlook which of the following types of data?

4. Which of the following two anti-feminist movies are made into television sitcoms?

5. The New Right select which of the following adjectives to describe feminism?

(see the answer key)

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