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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2: Chapters 5-6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Faludi, how are female characters treated in morality tales?
(a) Good mothers win, and independent women are punished.
(b) Women are not judged according to their lifestyle choices.
(c) Good mothers win, and single women are always envious of those in traditional roles.
(d) Good mothers are punished, and independent women win.

2. When making an indictment of 1980s films featuring female jobs, Faludi states that these movies do all of the following except:
(a) Show women as recognizing the sacrifices of being working women, but highly satisfied with their choices.
(b) Showing why women are better off staying home.
(c) Show female jobs as tedious and supportive of male enterprises.
(d) Fail to indict a demoralizing marketplace.

3. Faludi makes the point that most women who go mad in 1970s films are repressed and neglected housewives. According to the author, these women do all of the following except what?
(a) Hear that they should take action and speak up.
(b) Hear that they should enjoy themselves.
(c) Turn to male doctors.
(d) Go to other women for advice.

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

5. In the book Backlash, attackers of the feminist movement are described as working to put women back in their "proper" place _________________ and __________.
(a) Physiologically, emotionally.
(b) Psychologically, physically.
(c) Morally, ethnologically.
(d) Relationally, traditionally.

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. Women send positive letters after the heroine walks away from the altar in which movie?

3. By the 1980s the media begins to hail the arrival of a "________ generation."

4. Who casts his wife in the demeaning role of an unsmiling female doctor who clutches her book about obsession and compulsion?

5. In 1987, what does NBC identify as the possible "yuppie disease of the '80s"?

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