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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2: Chapters 7-8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Faludi, thirty years of data show that men suffer __________ __________ than do women.
(a) Less psychologically.
(b) More physically.
(c) More psychologically.
(d) Less physically.

2. What three relationship trends increased in the 1950s?
(a) Happy single womanhood, women marrying to conform to societal expectations, and women fleeing unhappy marriages.
(b) Happy single womanhood, women marrying to conform to societal expectations, and women forcing husbands into counseling to save unhappy marriages.
(c) Happy single womanhood, women marrying on their own terms, and women fleeing unhappy marriages.
(d) Unhappy single womanhood, women marrying to conform to societal expectations, and women fleeing unhappy marriages.

3. In the American version of the French film Three Men and a Baby, what significant change is made to the story line?
(a) It makes all of the men happy to have a baby to take raise.
(b) It adds a dour lawyer, Rebecca, who lacks both maternal and romantic "juices."
(c) It has the men raising one baby rather than twins.
(d) It includes the remorseful mother returning to take care of the baby and marry one of the fathers.

4. According to Backlash, career women are warned that their choice to delay pregnancy and childbirth are resulting in which of the following?
(a) Greater abortion rates.
(b) Higher incidents of birth defects.
(c) Endometriosis.
(d) Higher miscarriage rates.

5. 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 men than women putting family over professional advancement.
(b) It finds a tiny gender gap--with more women than men putting family over professional advancement.
(c) No answers are correct.
(d) It finds no gender gap--both men and women are putting family over professional advancement.

Short Answer Questions

1. In 1987, what does NBC identify as the possible "yuppie disease of the '80s"?

2. What outlet first declares that women's chances of conceiving drops not after age forty but after thirty?

3. The term "strong-armed into motherhood" is used by Faludi to describe which of the following movies?

4. According to Faludi in Chapter 1, all of the following attack feminists EXCEPT:

5. Faludi writes that all of the following designers try to push femininity onto working women except:

(see the answer key)

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