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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. In the book Backlash, attackers of the feminist movement are described as working to put women back in their "proper" place _________________ and __________.
(a) Relationally, traditionally.
(b) Psychologically, physically.
(c) Morally, ethnologically.
(d) Physiologically, emotionally.

2. 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) Families in other industrialized nations.
(b) Their married, child-bearing peers.
(c) Paupers, fools, and foreigners.
(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) Bonnie Chambers.
(c) Felice Schwartz.
(d) Mary Anne Devanna.

4. During the 1980s all the following firsts are accomplished EXCEPT:
(a) Women outnumber men in college attendance.
(b) Women outnumber men in total jobs.
(c) Women outnumber men on unemployment lines.
(d) The U.S. Census stops defining head of household as the husband.

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What three relationship trends increased in the 1950s?

3. Retin-A is approved by the FDA to treat _____________ and is eventually marketed to treat ________.

4. Unmarried, childless after forty, hooked on work, a 1970s feminist and the third generation in her family to have a low view of "traditional femininity." This is Faludi's description of which market research trend executive?

5. Advertisers tell women career success is harming their complexions and causing all of the following except:

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