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

2. What are the findings of the 1987 survey conducted by Fortune magazine on the issue of "bailing out," the term used to describe female MBA students opting for less demanding careers to concentrate on marriage and family?
(a) It finds a tiny gender gap--with more women than men putting family over professional advancement.
(b) It finds a tiny gender gap--with more men than women putting family over professional advancement.
(c) No answers are correct.
(d) It finds no gender gap--both men and women are putting family over professional advancement.

3. According to Faludi, thirty years of data show that men suffer __________ __________ than do women.
(a) Less physically.
(b) More physically.
(c) Less psychologically.
(d) More psychologically.

4. In 1989 which Ivy League university commissioned a survey that confirmed the findings of the Fortune magazine research on female MBA students "bailing out"?
(a) Harvard.
(b) Stanford.
(c) Yale.
(d) Columbia.

5. 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) Families in other industrialized nations.
(c) No answers are correct.
(d) Paupers, fools, and foreigners.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. Unmarried, childless after forty, hooked on work, a 1970s feminist and the third generation in her family to have a low view of "traditional femininity." This is Faludi's description of which market research trend executive?

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

4. Which female executive is quoted as saying she hopes companies can treat "career-and-family women" more leniently than "career-primary" women?

5. 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?

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