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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. Faludi notes that after Reagan becomes president, which of the following are among the political victims?
(a) The Vice President.
(b) The Office of Domestic Violence.
(c) The Equal Rights Amendment.
(d) Newspapers.

2. Faludi states that in 1986, NBC and Cosmopolitan warn women of three side effects of divorce including:
(a) An empty bank account, bitterness, and loneliness.
(b) Loneliness, depression, and childlessness.
(c) Childlessness, bitterness, and financial ruin.
(d) Depression, loneliness, and an empty bank account.

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?
(a) Unmarried women believing their lives are "as easy" as married friends.
(b) Census figures showing 1.9 million more never-married men than women.
(c) Women cohabitating at rates twice those of 1970.
(d) Better paid women are more likely to marry.

4. 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) Paupers, fools, and foreigners.
(c) Their married, child-bearing peers.
(d) No answers are correct.

5. Who is nicknamed "The Breast Man of San Francisco"?
(a) Dr. Robert Harvey.
(b) Dr. Jack Statz.
(c) Dr. Hugo Ramirez.
(d) Dr. John Voorhees.

Short Answer Questions

1. Victoria Secret was intended to be the:

2. Fatal and Fetal Visions deals with how the_________ serve the backlash.

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

4. 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?

5. Select the book that claims that children are worse off when parents divorce.

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