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

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?
(a) Working Woman has a better system of distribution.
(b) Executives at Working Woman focus on traditional female roles, which is what readers want.
(c) The magazine is concentrating on career women's needs.
(d) Surveys show that Working Woman has many more loyal readers.

3. According to Backlash, attacking the feminist movement is accomplished by systematically using which of the following?
(a) Grassroots movements of husbands and fathers.
(b) Research on children's opinions.
(c) Popular culture.
(d) No answers are correct.

4. In 1987, what does NBC identify as the possible "yuppie disease of the '80s"?
(a) HIV.
(b) The surge in infertility.
(c) The high divorce rates.
(d) Financial competition between husbands and wives.

5. 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?
(a) Women's choices of fashion and clothing.
(b) Women's desires to control their own fertility.
(c) Women's drive for economic equality.
(d) Women's increasing presence in the political arena.

Short Answer 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.

2. Select the magazine that Faludi praises for using federal statistics to accurately portray the career choices of women.

3. 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?

4. Faludi asserts that a major objective of the attack on feminism is the desire to:

5. During the 1980s all the following firsts are accomplished EXCEPT:

(see the answer key)

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