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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. According to Backlash, career women are warned that their choice to delay pregnancy and childbirth are resulting in which of the following?
(a) Higher miscarriage rates.
(b) Endometriosis.
(c) Greater abortion rates.
(d) Higher incidents of birth defects.

2. After Reagan's accession to the presidency, Faludi writes that the two political parties do which of the following?
(a) Both oppose the women's rights movement with equal vigor.
(b) Both stop talking about women's rights.
(c) Each present separate platforms for advancing women's rights.
(d) Begin expressing diverging views about women's rights.

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

4. Faludi asserts that a major objective of the attack on feminism is the desire to:
(a) Destroy the family bond.
(b) Break women's political will.
(c) Return to capitalist traditions.
(d) Encourage women to band together.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Sociologist Lenore Weitzman suggests that the issue of divorce should be handled by doing all of the following EXCEPT:

2. The major networks parade tearfully "penitent unwed" women through the media; Faludi highlights examples from all the following networks EXCEPT:

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

4. In the book Backlash, attackers of the feminist movement are described as working to put women back in their "proper" place _________________ and __________.

5. According to Faludi, men's opposition to women's rights and the feminist movement is a source of:

(see the answer key)

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