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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 notes that after Reagan becomes president, which of the following are among the political victims?
(a) Newspapers.
(b) The Equal Rights Amendment.
(c) The Vice President.
(d) The Office of Domestic Violence.

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) Felice Schwartz.
(b) Mary Anne Devanna.
(c) No answers are correct.
(d) Faith Popcorn.

3. Faludi suggests that movies are used by men to deal with their emotions concerning women. How does she suggest this is done?
(a) When watching movies with female partners, men cow them into silence by shouting at the screen.
(b) In dark theaters men work out deep-seated resentments and fears about women.
(c) By watching tapes at home men develop bitter grudges and ongoing fears about women.
(d) They avoid movies in which women are not treated equally and support movies that show they are progressive and in support of the feminist movement.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. The author writes that the feminist movement is blamed for all the evil in ________ society.

4. 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?

5. Which organization's findings do not support the idea of a "baby boomlet" among career women?

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