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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2: Chapter 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Faludi asserts that the decade's only real infertility epidemic is among young _____ women and is caused largely by the failure to treat ______ early on.
(a) White, HPV.
(b) Black, gonorrhea.
(c) White, herpes.
(d) Black, chlamydia.

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

3. Which female executive is quoted as saying she hopes companies can treat "career-and-family women" more leniently than "career-primary" women?
(a) Felice Schwartz.
(b) Mary Anne Devanna.
(c) Faith Popcorn.
(d) Bonnie Chambers.

4. Why do politicians, journalists, and business leaders claim that women need no more help advancing?
(a) They are in the infancy of their independence.
(b) They have surpassed men in their accomplishments.
(c) They have come of age.
(d) They have returned to traditional roles.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. 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?

4. According to Backlash, attacking the feminist movement is accomplished by systematically using which of the following?

5. What is the complete title of the book, Backlash?

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