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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. When women boo Sheila Levine Is Dead and Living in New York, Faludi sees this as an indication that women want to embrace single womanhood. She says this because of which of the following?
(a) They disagree with the choices of spouses and feel that the writers mismatched the female leads and the men that they marry.
(b) They prefer the ending in the novel in which the author does not feel the need to marry off the single women. They do not like the wedding scenes and prefer more romantic settings.
(c) No answers are correct.
(d) They disagree with the ending in the novel in which the author does not feel the need to marry off the single women.

2. When making an indictment of 1980s films featuring female jobs, Faludi states that these movies do all of the following except:
(a) Fail to indict a demoralizing marketplace.
(b) Showing why women are better off staying home.
(c) Show female jobs as tedious and supportive of male enterprises.
(d) Show women as recognizing the sacrifices of being working women, but highly satisfied with their choices.

3. In Part 1 of Backlash, "Myths and Flashbacks" which of the following myths is analyzed?
(a) Family Upheavals.
(b) Feminist Satisfactions.
(c) Man Shortages.
(d) Fertility Booms.

4. Faludi asserts that equal attention is given to _______ family size in whites and ________ family size among blacks.
(a) Limiting, limiting.
(b) Increasing, increasing.
(c) Limiting, increasing.
(d) Increasing, limiting.

5. Faludi asserts that a major objective of the attack on feminism is the desire to:
(a) Destroy the family bond.
(b) Encourage women to band together.
(c) Break women's political will.
(d) Return to capitalist traditions.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Guess Jeans' advertising campaign is based variously on all the following except:

3. Which female executive is quoted as saying she hopes companies can treat "career-and-family women" more leniently than "career-primary" women?

4. Whose design house loses $9.3 million in 1989?

5. Faludi states that which of the following is less harmful to women than other forms of plastic surgery?

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