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

2. Sociologist Lenore Weitzman suggests that the issue of divorce should be handled by doing all of the following EXCEPT:
(a) "Fine-tuning" new divorce laws.
(b) Focusing on the core question of whether women are better off "protected" or equal.
(c) Collecting pre-reform data against which to test her hypothesis.
(d) Rejecting the "charade" of the old system.

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

4. In 1989 which Ivy League university commissioned a survey that confirmed the findings of the Fortune magazine research on female MBA students "bailing out"?
(a) Harvard.
(b) Yale.
(c) Stanford.
(d) Columbia.

5. 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 enjoy themselves.
(b) Go to other women for advice.
(c) Hear that they should take action and speak up.
(d) Turn to male doctors.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the Faludi describe the media's treatment of protests against the Miss America pageant and burning bras?

2. Why do politicians, journalists, and business leaders claim that women need no more help advancing?

3. According to Backlash, attacking the feminist movement is accomplished by systematically using which of the following?

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

5. Which of the following women is cited in the book as being consistently shut out of the Emmys, disapproved of in public by George Bush, and having a nationwide club formed just to hate and revile her?

(see the answer key)

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