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

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

3. What is the complete title of the book, Backlash?
(a) Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Families.
(b) Backlash: The Declared War Against American Women.
(c) Backlash: The Declared War Against American Families.
(d) Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women.

4. Faludi states that in 1986, NBC and Cosmopolitan warn women of three side effects of divorce including:
(a) Loneliness, depression, and childlessness.
(b) Childlessness, bitterness, and financial ruin.
(c) Depression, loneliness, and an empty bank account.
(d) An empty bank account, bitterness, and loneliness.

5. All of the following are researchers on the Harvard-Yale marriage study EXCEPT:
(a) Patricia Craig.
(b) Neil Bennett.
(c) Jeanne Moorman.
(d) David Bloom.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Part 2 of the book The Backlash in Popular Culture looks at trends in all the following media EXCEPT:

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

5. Which author publishes a 922-page compendium in which 4,500 women despair about not being treated as equals by mates?

(see the answer key)

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