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

2. Unmarried, childless after forty, hooked on work, a 1970s feminist and the third generation in her family to have a low view of "traditional femininity." This is Faludi's description of which market research trend executive?
(a) Mary Anne Devanna.
(b) Felice Schwartz.
(c) Faith Popcorn.
(d) No answers are correct.

3. According to Faludi, men's opposition to women's rights and the feminist movement is a source of:
(a) Motivation.
(b) Resentment and stress.
(c) Passivity.
(d) Justification for the struggle.

4. According to Faludi in Chapter 1, all of the following attack feminists EXCEPT:
(a) Journalists.
(b) Clergy.
(c) Politicians.
(d) School teachers.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The major networks parade tearfully "penitent unwed" women through the media; Faludi highlights examples from all the following networks EXCEPT:

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

3. Which of the following two anti-feminist movies are made into television sitcoms?

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

5. Television assaults the women's movement less than Hollywood movies; Faludi states that this is because of what factor?

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