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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. In the late 1980s, circulation of traditional women's magazines is down sharply with Good Housekeeping the worst off and Working Woman the best off. To what does Faludi attribute the relative success of Working Woman?
(a) The magazine is concentrating on career women's needs.
(b) Surveys show that Working Woman has many more loyal readers.
(c) Working Woman has a better system of distribution.
(d) Executives at Working Woman focus on traditional female roles, which is what readers want.

2. 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?
(a) Turn to male doctors.
(b) Hear that they should enjoy themselves.
(c) Hear that they should take action and speak up.
(d) Go to other women for advice.

3. An analogy is made between heiress Patricia Hearst and many female characters of the 1980s. Which of the following expresses the comparison?
(a) No answers are correct.
(b) Carrying a light load in a backpack to symbolize the ease with which committed women face motherhood.
(c) Having two heavy weights in each hand to symbolize the choice between marriage and single womanhood.
(d) Being bound, blindfolded, and lacking identity to symbolize having to flee the office for marriage and motherhood.

4. 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?
(a) The Force of Divorce.
(b) The Divorce Generation.
(c) When Divorce Happens.
(d) The Divorce Revolution.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. When making an indictment of 1980s films featuring female jobs, Faludi states that these movies do all of the following except:

3. Faludi asserts that equal attention is given to _______ family size in whites and ________ family size among blacks.

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

5. Select the book that claims that children are worse off when parents divorce.

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