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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. 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 support for women's rights.
(c) Long-standing resistance to women's rights.
(d) A culture of support for working mothers.

2. Cries of a "birth dearth" proudly seeks to scare educated white women into keeping up with which of the following groups according to Faludi?
(a) Paupers, fools, and foreigners.
(b) Families in other industrialized nations.
(c) Their married, child-bearing peers.
(d) No answers are correct.

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

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

5. By the 1980s the media begins to hail the arrival of a "________ generation."
(a) Anti-gender.
(b) Anti-feminist.
(c) Post-gender.
(d) Post-feminist.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Faludi, thirty years of data show that men suffer __________ __________ than do women.

2. Yankelovich Monitor surveys find that "masculinity" is often defined as a man being a "good provider." This has negative implications for which of the following aspects of the feminist movement?

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. Select the book that claims that children are worse off when parents divorce.

5. According to Backlash, career women are warned that their choice to delay pregnancy and childbirth are resulting in which of the following?

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