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

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

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

4. In the book Backlash, attackers of the feminist movement are described as working to put women back in their "proper" place _________________ and __________.
(a) Relationally, traditionally.
(b) Morally, ethnologically.
(c) Physiologically, emotionally.
(d) Psychologically, physically.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which author publishes a 922-page compendium in which 4,500 women despair about not being treated as equals by mates?

2. In Part 1 of Backlash, "Myths and Flashbacks" which of the following myths is analyzed?

3. According to Faludi, men's opposition to women's rights and the feminist movement is a source of:

4. Faludi notes that after Reagan becomes president, which of the following are among the political victims?

5. What outlet first declares that women's chances of conceiving drops not after age forty but after thirty?

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