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

2. In her timeline of women's cosmetic trends, Faludi states that the bright, healthy, athletic look is popular in which era?
(a) The 1920s and 1930s.
(b) The 1910s and 1920s.
(c) During World War I.
(d) In the 1970s.

3. A book claims that during the first year after divorce, a woman's standard of living declines by seventy-three percent while a man's increases by forty-seven percent. This claim is challenged by economists Saul Hoffman and Greg Duncan who have found which of the following statistics over twenty years?
(a) A twenty percent first-year decline for both men and women.
(b) A twenty five percent first-year rise for men.
(c) A three to five percent first-year rise for men.
(d) A thirty percent first-year decline for women.

4. All of the following are researchers on the Harvard-Yale marriage study EXCEPT:
(a) David Bloom.
(b) Neil Bennett.
(c) Patricia Craig.
(d) Jeanne Moorman.

5. Which author publishes a 922-page compendium in which 4,500 women despair about not being treated as equals by mates?
(a) Dr. Srully Blotnick.
(b) No answers are correct.
(c) Patricia Craig.
(d) Shere Hite.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Which 1980s movie is credited for fueling a "monogamy trend" and "reinvigorating marriage"?

4. Which of the following women bets a male reporter that she will marry by forty?

5. What is the theme of Chapter 8, "Beauty and the Backlash"?

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