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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. The author writes that the feminist movement is blamed for all the evil in ________ society.
(a) Historical.
(b) Futuristic.
(c) Every.
(d) Contemporary.

2. Faludi notes that rarely do the backlash's "force and furor" become as public as when which of the following occurs?
(a) When women's clinics are firebombed.
(b) When women's clinics are awarded additional funding.
(c) When prominent politicians deliver speeches against feminism.
(d) When women's clinics are shut down due to systematic lobbying efforts.

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

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

5. 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) Their married, child-bearing peers.
(b) No answers are correct.
(c) Paupers, fools, and foreigners.
(d) Families in other industrialized nations.

Short Answer Questions

1. After Reagan's accession to the presidency, Faludi writes that the two political parties do which of the following?

2. Another blow to the feminist movement comes when the Supreme Court moves towards which of the following actions?

3. By questioning whether the "backlash" is a new phenomenon, some social observers admit that there has been:

4. The backlash seeks to divide and conquer by pitting women against each other. Faludi describes all of the following battle lines EXCEPT:

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

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