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

2. During the 1980s all the following firsts are accomplished EXCEPT:
(a) Women outnumber men on unemployment lines.
(b) Women outnumber men in total jobs.
(c) The U.S. Census stops defining head of household as the husband.
(d) Women outnumber men in college attendance.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. Backlash is written in which decade?

3. According to Faludi in Chapter 1, all of the following attack feminists EXCEPT:

4. According to Faludi, thirty years of data show that men suffer __________ __________ than do women.

5. What is the complete title of the book, Backlash?

(see the answer key)

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