1. In Angels 88 screenwriter Brad Markowitz has been ordered to do all of the following except:
(a) Make the detectives dropouts from the police academy.
(b) Add more bikinis.
(c) Make the detectives incompetent unemployed actresses.
(d) Demote the police academy-trained detectives.

2. Backlash is written in which decade?
(a) 1960s.
(b) 1970s.
(c) 1950s.
(d) 1980s.

3. Which of the following women bets a male reporter that she will marry by forty?
(a) Patsy Howell.
(b) Elia Kazan.
(c) Diane Doe.
(d) Cecelia Gouge.

4. Sociologist Lenore Weitzman suggests that the issue of divorce should be handled by doing all of the following EXCEPT:
(a) Collecting pre-reform data against which to test her hypothesis.
(b) Rejecting the "charade" of the old system.
(c) Focusing on the core question of whether women are better off "protected" or equal.
(d) "Fine-tuning" new divorce laws.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

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

3. Which organization's findings do not support the idea of a "baby boomlet" among career women?

4. Victoria Secret was intended to be the:

5. The chapter "Teen Angels and Unwed Witches" turns to which of the following media?

(see the answer key)

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