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

2. In coining the term "cocooning," Faith Popcorn was seeking to do what according to Faludi?
(a) Identify a gender-neutral trend of parents leaving the office for being at home.
(b) Support the backlash's efforts to highlight slight changes in women returning to traditional roles.
(c) Show men as being more focused on sacrificing career advancement for family time.
(d) Highlight the fact that neither men nor women are placing family time over career advancement.

3. The author writes that the feminist movement is blamed for all the evil in ________ society.
(a) Historical.
(b) Every.
(c) Contemporary.
(d) Futuristic.

4. Another blow to the feminist movement comes when the Supreme Court moves towards which of the following actions?
(a) Removing all gender-neutral policies from public laws.
(b) Striking down the Equal Rights Amendment.
(c) Reconsidering abortion rights.
(d) Removing gender-based arguments from its hearings.

5. After the pop media launches its assault on single womanhood and increasing divorce numbers, what does Faludi quote as the percent drop in divorce rates?
(a) 0.2 percent.
(b) 2.0 percent.
(c) 20 percent.
(d) 2.2 percent.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Surveys show that an overwhelming majority of women feel there is still a need for all of the following EXCEPT:

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

4. Which organization's findings do not support the idea of a "baby boomlet" among career women?

5. Newsweek uses the metaphor that women are "______ ________ to be killed by a terrorist" than to _________.

(see the answer key)

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