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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. 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?
(a) The Divorce Revolution.
(b) The Force of Divorce.
(c) When Divorce Happens.
(d) The Divorce Generation.

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

3. According to Backlash, career women are warned that their choice to delay pregnancy and childbirth are resulting in which of the following?
(a) Higher miscarriage rates.
(b) Higher incidents of birth defects.
(c) Endometriosis.
(d) Greater abortion rates.

4. 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?
(a) A thirty percent first-year decline for women.
(b) A twenty percent first-year decline for both men and women.
(c) A three to five percent first-year rise for men.
(d) A twenty five percent first-year rise for men.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. The "Big Lie" joins ____________ to the "dime-store moralism of yesteryear."

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

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

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

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