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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. Cries of a "birth dearth" proudly seeks to scare educated white women into keeping up with which of the following groups according to Faludi?
(a) Paupers, fools, and foreigners.
(b) Their married, child-bearing peers.
(c) No answers are correct.
(d) Families in other industrialized nations.

2. Faludi asserts that a major objective of the attack on feminism is the desire to:
(a) Break women's political will.
(b) Destroy the family bond.
(c) Encourage women to band together.
(d) Return to capitalist traditions.

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. 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) Media organizations receiving federal grants.
(b) U.S. Census Bureau demographers.
(c) U.S. Department of Education statisticians.
(d) University researchers.

5. Backlash is written in which decade?
(a) 1950s.
(b) 1960s.
(c) 1980s.
(d) 1970s.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Backlash, attacking the feminist movement is accomplished by systematically using which of the following?

2. All of the following are researchers on the Harvard-Yale marriage study EXCEPT:

3. Faludi asserts that equal attention is given to _______ family size in whites and ________ family size among blacks.

4. Select the book that claims that children are worse off when parents divorce.

5. Surveys show that an overwhelming majority of women feel there is still a need for all of the following EXCEPT:

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