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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. Which author publishes a 922-page compendium in which 4,500 women despair about not being treated as equals by mates?
(a) Shere Hite.
(b) No answers are correct.
(c) Patricia Craig.
(d) Dr. Srully Blotnick.

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

3. 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) Collecting pre-reform data against which to test her hypothesis.
(c) "Fine-tuning" new divorce laws.
(d) Focusing on the core question of whether women are better off "protected" or equal.

4. According to Backlash, career women are warned that their choice to delay pregnancy and childbirth are resulting in which of the following?
(a) Greater abortion rates.
(b) Endometriosis.
(c) Higher incidents of birth defects.
(d) Higher miscarriage rates.

5. During the 1980s all the following firsts are accomplished EXCEPT:
(a) Women outnumber men in college attendance.
(b) Women outnumber men on unemployment lines.
(c) Women outnumber men in total jobs.
(d) The U.S. Census stops defining head of household as the husband.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. The "Big Lie" joins ____________ to the "dime-store moralism of yesteryear."

3. Which book provides the "devastating" statistics that there is a seventy-three percent decline in a woman's standard of living during the first year after divorce versus a man's forty-seven percent increase?

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

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

(see the answer key)

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