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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 the decade's only real infertility epidemic is among young _____ women and is caused largely by the failure to treat ______ early on.
(a) White, herpes.
(b) Black, gonorrhea.
(c) White, HPV.
(d) Black, chlamydia.

2. After Reagan's accession to the presidency, Faludi writes that the two political parties do which of the following?
(a) Both stop talking about women's rights.
(b) Begin expressing diverging views about women's rights.
(c) Each present separate platforms for advancing women's rights.
(d) Both oppose the women's rights movement with equal vigor.

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

4. According to Backlash, the press uses the Harvard-Yale study to scare women into marrying "just to beat the 'odds'." At the same time, they overlook which of the following types of data?
(a) Census figures showing 1.9 million more never-married men than women.
(b) Unmarried women believing their lives are "as easy" as married friends.
(c) Women cohabitating at rates twice those of 1970.
(d) Better paid women are more likely to marry.

5. The "Big Lie" joins ____________ to the "dime-store moralism of yesteryear."
(a) Religious dogmatism.
(b) Scientific research.
(c) Legal maneuvering.
(d) Undercover journalism.

Short Answer 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?

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

3. Sociologist Lenore Weitzman suggests that the issue of divorce should be handled by doing all of the following EXCEPT:

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

5. The author writes that the feminist movement is blamed for all the evil in ________ society.

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