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

2. Select the book that claims that children are worse off when parents divorce.
(a) The Little Ones.
(b) Parents Choices.
(c) After Divorce.
(d) Second Chance.

3. Faludi notes that after Reagan becomes president, which of the following are among the political victims?
(a) The Equal Rights Amendment.
(b) Newspapers.
(c) The Vice President.
(d) The Office of Domestic Violence.

4. Why do politicians, journalists, and business leaders claim that women need no more help advancing?
(a) They have surpassed men in their accomplishments.
(b) They have returned to traditional roles.
(c) They have come of age.
(d) They are in the infancy of their independence.

5. According to Faludi, men's opposition to women's rights and the feminist movement is a source of:
(a) Justification for the struggle.
(b) Motivation.
(c) Passivity.
(d) Resentment and stress.

Short Answer Questions

1. _________ 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.

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

3. In the book Backlash, attackers of the feminist movement are described as working to put women back in their "proper" place _________________ and __________.

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

5. Faludi asserts that a major objective of the attack on feminism is the desire to:

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