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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. Select the magazine that Faludi praises for using federal statistics to accurately portray the career choices of women.
(a) Fortune.
(b) No answers are correct.
(c) Newsweek.
(d) Esquire.

2. Faludi presents Ms. Magazine as a media outlet that has abandoned its flagship status as a supporter of the feminist movement. She writes that the magazine returns to its roots only after what happens?
(a) The Supreme Court restricts women's reproductive rights in 1989.
(b) A string of firebombings of abortion clinics in 1987.
(c) The Office of Domestic Violence is closed.
(d) Congress abandons the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA).

3. 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?
(a) Women's increasing presence in the political arena.
(b) Women's choices of fashion and clothing.
(c) Women's drive for economic equality.
(d) Women's desires to control their own fertility.

4. The backlash seeks to divide and conquer by pitting women against each other. Faludi describes all of the following battle lines EXCEPT:
(a) Affluent versus working poor.
(b) Single versus married.
(c) Young versus old.
(d) Working versus homemakers.

5. Backlash is written in which decade?
(a) 1970s.
(b) 1960s.
(c) 1980s.
(d) 1950s.

Short Answer Questions

1. During the 1980s all the following firsts are accomplished EXCEPT:

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

3. Another blow to the feminist movement comes when the Supreme Court moves towards which of the following actions?

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

5. In 1989 which Ivy League university commissioned a survey that confirmed the findings of the Fortune magazine research on female MBA students "bailing out"?

(see the answer key)

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