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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 physically.
(b) Less psychologically.
(c) More physically.
(d) More psychologically.

2. What outlet first declares that women's chances of conceiving drops not after age forty but after thirty?
(a) U.S. Census Bureau.
(b) The New England Journal of Medicine.
(c) French researchers Schwartz and Mayaux.
(d) U.S. National Center for Health Statistics.

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

4. All of the following are researchers on the Harvard-Yale marriage study EXCEPT:
(a) David Bloom.
(b) Jeanne Moorman.
(c) Patricia Craig.
(d) Neil Bennett.

5. In 1987, what does NBC identify as the possible "yuppie disease of the '80s"?
(a) Financial competition between husbands and wives.
(b) The high divorce rates.
(c) HIV.
(d) The surge in infertility.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. ________ issues more miniskirts and says older women want to feel sexy on the job and ________ agrees: "gals" like to show their legs.

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

4. Sociologist Lenore Weitzman suggests that the issue of divorce should be handled by doing all of the following EXCEPT:

5. Faludi notes that rarely do the backlash's "force and furor" become as public as when which of the following occurs?

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