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

2. What are the findings of the 1987 survey conducted by Fortune magazine on the issue of "bailing out," the term used to describe female MBA students opting for less demanding careers to concentrate on marriage and family?
(a) It finds a tiny gender gap--with more women than men putting family over professional advancement.
(b) It finds no gender gap--both men and women are putting family over professional advancement.
(c) It finds a tiny gender gap--with more men than women putting family over professional advancement.
(d) No answers are correct.

3. Which female executive is quoted as saying she hopes companies can treat "career-and-family women" more leniently than "career-primary" women?
(a) Faith Popcorn.
(b) Mary Anne Devanna.
(c) Felice Schwartz.
(d) Bonnie Chambers.

4. Women send positive letters after the heroine walks away from the altar in which movie?
(a) The Graduate.
(b) Flashdance.
(c) Private Benjamin.
(d) Fatal Attraction.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Backlash is written in which decade?

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

3. Which book provides the "devastating" statistics that there is a seventy-three percent decline in a woman's standard of living during the first year after divorce versus a man's forty-seven percent increase?

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. When women boo Sheila Levine Is Dead and Living in New York, Faludi sees this as an indication that women want to embrace single womanhood. She says this because of which of the following?

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