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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. The "Big Lie" joins ____________ to the "dime-store moralism of yesteryear."
(a) Religious dogmatism.
(b) Scientific research.
(c) Legal maneuvering.
(d) Undercover journalism.

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

3. Which organization's findings do not support the idea of a "baby boomlet" among career women?
(a) Annual surveys by professional organizations.
(b) Census Bureau data.
(c) Time magazine research.
(d) No answers are correct.

4. By the 1980s the media begins to hail the arrival of a "________ generation."
(a) Post-gender.
(b) Post-feminist.
(c) Anti-feminist.
(d) Anti-gender.

5. Sociologist Lenore Weitzman suggests that the issue of divorce should be handled by doing all of the following EXCEPT:
(a) Rejecting the "charade" of the old system.
(b) Focusing on the core question of whether women are better off "protected" or equal.
(c) "Fine-tuning" new divorce laws.
(d) Collecting pre-reform data against which to test her hypothesis.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Part 1 of Backlash, "Myths and Flashbacks" which of the following myths is analyzed?

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

3. 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?

4. All of the following are researchers on the Harvard-Yale marriage study EXCEPT:

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

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