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

2. Another blow to the feminist movement comes when the Supreme Court moves towards which of the following actions?
(a) Striking down the Equal Rights Amendment.
(b) Reconsidering abortion rights.
(c) Removing gender-based arguments from its hearings.
(d) Removing all gender-neutral policies from public laws.

3. Faludi notes that rarely do the backlash's "force and furor" become as public as when which of the following occurs?
(a) When women's clinics are awarded additional funding.
(b) When women's clinics are shut down due to systematic lobbying efforts.
(c) When prominent politicians deliver speeches against feminism.
(d) When women's clinics are firebombed.

4. In the book Backlash, attackers of the feminist movement are described as working to put women back in their "proper" place _________________ and __________.
(a) Morally, ethnologically.
(b) Relationally, traditionally.
(c) Psychologically, physically.
(d) Physiologically, emotionally.

5. 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?
(a) Women's desires to control their own fertility.
(b) Women's drive for economic equality.
(c) Women's choices of fashion and clothing.
(d) Women's increasing presence in the political arena.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Faludi, men's opposition to women's rights and the feminist movement is a source of:

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

3. What outlet first declares that women's chances of conceiving drops not after age forty but after thirty?

4. The author writes that the feminist movement is blamed for all the evil in ________ society.

5. All of the following are researchers on the Harvard-Yale marriage study EXCEPT:

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