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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. Faludi asserts that the decade's only real infertility epidemic is among young _____ women and is caused largely by the failure to treat ______ early on.
(a) Black, gonorrhea.
(b) White, HPV.
(c) Black, chlamydia.
(d) White, herpes.

2. Which of the following two anti-feminist movies are made into television sitcoms?
(a) No answers are correct.
(b) Private Benjamin and Fatal Attraction.
(c) Fatal Attraction and Baby Boom.
(d) Baby Boom and Private Benjamin.

3. The "Big Lie" joins ____________ to the "dime-store moralism of yesteryear."
(a) Legal maneuvering.
(b) Religious dogmatism.
(c) Scientific research.
(d) Undercover journalism.

4. 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) Begin expressing diverging views about women's rights.
(d) Both oppose the women's rights movement with equal vigor.

5. What outlet first declares that women's chances of conceiving drops not after age forty but after thirty?
(a) French researchers Schwartz and Mayaux.
(b) The New England Journal of Medicine.
(c) U.S. National Center for Health Statistics.
(d) U.S. Census Bureau.

Short Answer Questions

1. Yankelovich Monitor surveys find that "masculinity" is often defined as a man being a "good provider." This has negative implications for which of the following aspects of the feminist movement?

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

3. The chapter "Teen Angels and Unwed Witches" turns to which of the following media?

4. Which 1980s movie is credited for fueling a "monogamy trend" and "reinvigorating marriage"?

5. In Part 1 of Backlash, "Myths and Flashbacks" which of the following myths is analyzed?

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