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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. During the 1980s all the following firsts are accomplished EXCEPT:
(a) Women outnumber men in total jobs.
(b) The U.S. Census stops defining head of household as the husband.
(c) Women outnumber men on unemployment lines.
(d) Women outnumber men in college attendance.

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

3. According to Faludi, thirty years of data show that men suffer __________ __________ than do women.
(a) Less psychologically.
(b) More psychologically.
(c) More physically.
(d) Less physically.

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

5. _________ 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.
(a) David Bloom, Jeanne Moorman.
(b) Neil Bennett, David Bloom.
(c) Jeanne Moorman, Robert Fay.
(d) Patricia Craig, Neil Bennett.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Part 1 of Backlash, "Myths and Flashbacks" which of the following myths is analyzed?

2. Why do politicians, journalists, and business leaders claim that women need no more help advancing?

3. 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?

4. 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?

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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