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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 American version of the French film Three Men and a Baby, what significant change is made to the story line?
(a) It includes the remorseful mother returning to take care of the baby and marry one of the fathers.
(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 makes all of the men happy to have a baby to take raise.

2. Whose design house loses $9.3 million in 1989?
(a) Christian Dior.
(b) Christian Lacroix.
(c) John Weitz.
(d) Calvin Klein.

3. 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?
(a) Felice Schwartz.
(b) Faith Popcorn.
(c) No answers are correct.
(d) Mary Anne Devanna.

4. Advertisers tell women career success is harming their complexions and causing all of the following except:
(a) Dandruff.
(b) Weight gain.
(c) Dry skin.
(d) Hair loss.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which author publishes a 922-page compendium in which 4,500 women despair about not being treated as equals by mates?

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

3. According to Backlash, the press uses the Harvard-Yale study to scare women into marrying "just to beat the 'odds'." At the same time, they overlook which of the following types of data?

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

5. Faludi asserts that a major objective of the attack on feminism is the desire to:

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