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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. Which of the following terms was coined as a part of the backlash?
(a) Feminism movement.
(b) Mommy syndrome.
(c) Husband shortage.
(d) Biological clock.

2. Faludi asserts that equal attention is given to _______ family size in whites and ________ family size among blacks.
(a) Increasing, limiting.
(b) Limiting, increasing.
(c) Increasing, increasing.
(d) Limiting, limiting.

3. 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) Columbia.
(b) Harvard.
(c) Stanford.
(d) Yale.

4. 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) When Divorce Happens.
(c) The Force of Divorce.
(d) The Divorce Generation.

5. Backlash is written in which decade?
(a) 1980s.
(b) 1970s.
(c) 1950s.
(d) 1960s.

Short Answer Questions

1. _________ and ________, two demographers at the Census Bureau, re-run the Harvard-Yale study using 1980 data and find a major flaw in the study and its calculations.

2. Faludi notes that rarely do the backlash's "force and furor" become as public as when which of the following occurs?

3. In coining the term "cocooning," Faith Popcorn was seeking to do what according to Faludi?

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

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?

(see the answer key)

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