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) Esquire.
(d) Newsweek.

2. Another blow to the feminist movement comes when the Supreme Court moves towards which of the following actions?
(a) Removing all gender-neutral policies from public laws.
(b) Striking down the Equal Rights Amendment.
(c) Removing gender-based arguments from its hearings.
(d) Reconsidering abortion rights.

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

4. Why do politicians, journalists, and business leaders claim that women need no more help advancing?
(a) They have come of age.
(b) They have surpassed men in their accomplishments.
(c) They have returned to traditional roles.
(d) They are in the infancy of their independence.

5. 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) White, herpes.
(b) White, HPV.
(c) Black, gonorrhea.
(d) Black, chlamydia.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. Backlash is written in which decade?

3. What is the complete title of the book, Backlash?

4. After Reagan's accession to the presidency, Faludi writes that the two political parties do which of the following?

5. Faludi suggests that movies are used by men to deal with their emotions concerning women. How does she suggest this is done?

(see the answer key)

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