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

2. 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) Psychologically, physically.
(c) Physiologically, emotionally.
(d) Morally, ethnologically.

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

4. 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) Black, chlamydia.
(b) Black, gonorrhea.
(c) White, herpes.
(d) White, HPV.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What is the complete title of the book, Backlash?

4. Faludi asserts that under the Reagan administration which of the following are pressured to generate data that fit the war on women's independence?

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

(see the answer key)

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