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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. Part 2 of the book The Backlash in Popular Culture looks at trends in all the following media EXCEPT:
(a) Television.
(b) Magazines.
(c) Print.
(d) Internet.

2. According to Backlash, the press uses the Harvard-Yale study to scare women into marrying "just to beat the 'odds'." At the same time, they overlook which of the following types of data?
(a) Unmarried women believing their lives are "as easy" as married friends.
(b) Women cohabitating at rates twice those of 1970.
(c) Better paid women are more likely to marry.
(d) Census figures showing 1.9 million more never-married men than women.

3. In Part 1 of Backlash, "Myths and Flashbacks" which of the following myths is analyzed?
(a) Feminist Satisfactions.
(b) Man Shortages.
(c) Family Upheavals.
(d) Fertility Booms.

4. Faludi notes that after Reagan becomes president, which of the following are among the political victims?
(a) The Equal Rights Amendment.
(b) The Vice President.
(c) Newspapers.
(d) The Office of Domestic Violence.

5. Select the book that claims that children are worse off when parents divorce.
(a) Parents Choices.
(b) Second Chance.
(c) The Little Ones.
(d) After Divorce.

Short Answer Questions

1. Backlash is written in which decade?

2. According to Backlash, career women are warned that their choice to delay pregnancy and childbirth are resulting in which of the following?

3. In 1987, what does NBC identify as the possible "yuppie disease of the '80s"?

4. Faludi states that in 1986, NBC and Cosmopolitan warn women of three side effects of divorce including:

5. The backlash seeks to divide and conquer by pitting women against each other. Faludi describes all of the following battle lines EXCEPT:

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