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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. 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.

2. Faludi asserts that a major objective of the attack on feminism is the desire to:
(a) Break women's political will.
(b) Encourage women to band together.
(c) Destroy the family bond.
(d) Return to capitalist traditions.

3. After Reagan's accession to the presidency, Faludi writes that the two political parties do which of the following?
(a) Each present separate platforms for advancing women's rights.
(b) Both stop talking about women's rights.
(c) Both oppose the women's rights movement with equal vigor.
(d) Begin expressing diverging views about women's rights.

4. According to Faludi in Chapter 1, all of the following attack feminists EXCEPT:
(a) Journalists.
(b) School teachers.
(c) Politicians.
(d) Clergy.

5. The backlash seeks to divide and conquer by pitting women against each other. Faludi describes all of the following battle lines EXCEPT:
(a) Single versus married.
(b) Working versus homemakers.
(c) Young versus old.
(d) Affluent versus working poor.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Another blow to the feminist movement comes when the Supreme Court moves towards which of the following actions?

4. Faludi notes that after Reagan becomes president, which of the following are among the political victims?

5. Which author publishes a 922-page compendium in which 4,500 women despair about not being treated as equals by mates?

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