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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 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) Go to other women for advice.
(c) Hear that they should take action and speak up.
(d) Hear that they should enjoy themselves.

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

3. Television assaults the women's movement less than Hollywood movies; Faludi states that this is because of what factor?
(a) Hollywood movies have greater budgets and more freedom with their creativity.
(b) Women are a majority of viewers and are advertisers' prime target.
(c) Television producers do not wish to tackle these issues through on-screen programming.
(d) There are more women executives in the television industry who support the women's movement.

4. Sociologist Lenore Weitzman suggests that the issue of divorce should be handled by doing all of the following EXCEPT:
(a) Rejecting the "charade" of the old system.
(b) Collecting pre-reform data against which to test her hypothesis.
(c) "Fine-tuning" new divorce laws.
(d) Focusing on the core question of whether women are better off "protected" or equal.

5. Cries of a "birth dearth" proudly seeks to scare educated white women into keeping up with which of the following groups according to Faludi?
(a) Their married, child-bearing peers.
(b) No answers are correct.
(c) Paupers, fools, and foreigners.
(d) Families in other industrialized nations.

Short Answer Questions

1. Women send positive letters after the heroine walks away from the altar in which movie?

2. Faludi notes that after Reagan becomes president, which of the following are among the political victims?

3. According to Faludi, thirty years of data show that men suffer __________ __________ than do women.

4. The major networks parade tearfully "penitent unwed" women through the media; Faludi highlights examples from all the following networks EXCEPT:

5. Fatal and Fetal Visions deals with how the_________ serve the backlash.

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