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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. Sociologist Lenore Weitzman suggests that the issue of divorce should be handled by doing all of the following EXCEPT:
(a) Rejecting the "charade" of the old system.
(b) Collecting pre-reform data against which to test her hypothesis.
(c) "Fine-tuning" new divorce laws.
(d) Focusing on the core question of whether women are better off "protected" or equal.

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

3. 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) Their married, child-bearing peers.
(b) Paupers, fools, and foreigners.
(c) No answers are correct.
(d) Families in other industrialized nations.

4. The author writes that the feminist movement is blamed for all the evil in ________ society.
(a) Every.
(b) Contemporary.
(c) Futuristic.
(d) Historical.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. _________ 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.

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

4. Faludi asserts that equal attention is given to _______ family size in whites and ________ family size among blacks.

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

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