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

2. Newsweek uses the metaphor that women are "______ ________ to be killed by a terrorist" than to _________.
(a) Less likely, marry.
(b) More likely, divorce.
(c) Less likely, divorce.
(d) More likely, marry.

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 incidents of birth defects.
(b) Endometriosis.
(c) Higher miscarriage rates.
(d) Greater abortion rates.

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

5. 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, herpes.
(b) Black, chlamydia.
(c) White, HPV.
(d) Black, gonorrhea.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In the late 1980s, circulation of traditional women's magazines is down sharply with Good Housekeeping the worst off and Working Woman the best off. To what does Faludi attribute the relative success of Working Woman?

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

4. Which organization's findings do not support the idea of a "baby boomlet" among career women?

5. The major networks parade tearfully "penitent unwed" women through the media; Faludi highlights examples from all the following networks EXCEPT:

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