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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. Women send positive letters after the heroine walks away from the altar in which movie?
(a) Private Benjamin.
(b) Fatal Attraction.
(c) Flashdance.
(d) The Graduate.

2. The backlash seeks to divide and conquer by pitting women against each other. Faludi describes all of the following battle lines EXCEPT:
(a) Single versus married.
(b) Working versus homemakers.
(c) Young versus old.
(d) Affluent versus working poor.

3. Surveys show that an overwhelming majority of women feel there is still a need for all of the following EXCEPT:
(a) Decent childcare.
(b) Child-rearing courses.
(c) The right to abortions.
(d) An Equal Rights Amendment (ERA).

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

5. By questioning whether the "backlash" is a new phenomenon, some social observers admit that there has been:
(a) Long-standing support for women's rights.
(b) A culture of support for working mothers.
(c) An undercurrent of resentment against working fathers.
(d) Long-standing resistance to women's rights.

Short Answer Questions

1. When making an indictment of 1980s films featuring female jobs, Faludi states that these movies do all of the following except:

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

3. In Part 1 of Backlash, "Myths and Flashbacks" which of the following myths is analyzed?

4. 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?

5. Part 2 of the book The Backlash in Popular Culture looks at trends in all the following media EXCEPT:

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