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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 1: Chapters 2-3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Faludi asserts that under the Reagan administration which of the following are pressured to generate data that fit the war on women's independence?
(a) U.S. Department of Education statisticians.
(b) U.S. Census Bureau demographers.
(c) Media organizations receiving federal grants.
(d) University researchers.

2. Surveys show that an overwhelming majority of women feel there is still a need for all of the following EXCEPT:
(a) An Equal Rights Amendment (ERA).
(b) Child-rearing courses.
(c) Decent childcare.
(d) The right to abortions.

3. All of the following are researchers on the Harvard-Yale marriage study EXCEPT:
(a) Jeanne Moorman.
(b) Patricia Craig.
(c) Neil Bennett.
(d) David Bloom.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Faludi asserts that the decade's only real infertility epidemic is among young _____ women and is caused largely by the failure to treat ______ early on.

2. According to Faludi in Chapter 1, all of the following attack feminists EXCEPT:

3. Faludi notes that rarely do the backlash's "force and furor" become as public as when which of the following occurs?

4. According to Faludi, thirty years of data show that men suffer __________ __________ than do women.

5. A book claims that during the first year after divorce, a woman's standard of living declines by seventy-three percent while a man's increases by forty-seven percent. This claim is challenged by economists Saul Hoffman and Greg Duncan who have found which of the following statistics over twenty years?

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