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

2. By questioning whether the "backlash" is a new phenomenon, some social observers admit that there has been:
(a) An undercurrent of resentment against working fathers.
(b) Long-standing resistance to women's rights.
(c) A culture of support for working mothers.
(d) Long-standing support for women's rights.

3. 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.

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?
(a) U.S. Department of Education statisticians.
(b) U.S. Census Bureau demographers.
(c) University researchers.
(d) Media organizations receiving federal grants.

5. Backlash is written in which decade?
(a) 1970s.
(b) 1950s.
(c) 1960s.
(d) 1980s.

Short Answer Questions

1. By the 1980s the media begins to hail the arrival of a "________ generation."

2. 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?

3. _________ 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.

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

5. A book claims that during the first year after divorce, a woman's standard of living declines by seventy-three percent while a man's increases by forty-seven percent. This claim is challenged by economists Saul Hoffman and Greg Duncan who have found which of the following statistics over twenty years?

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