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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 4: Chapter 12.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. If I'm So Wonderful, Why Am I Still Single? (1988) was written by which of the following authors?
(a) Susan Price.
(b) Susan Page.
(c) Toni Grant.
(d) Robin Norwood.

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

3. 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) French researchers Schwartz and Mayaux.
(c) U.S. Census Bureau.
(d) U.S. National Center for Health Statistics.

4. The author writes that the feminist movement is blamed for all the evil in ________ society.
(a) Every.
(b) Historical.
(c) Contemporary.
(d) Futuristic.

5. Part 3, "Origins of a Reaction: Backlash Movers, Shakers, and Thinkers," begins by looking at "The Politics of Resentment: The ___________ War on Women."
(a) Christian Right's.
(b) American Right's.
(c) New Right's.
(d) National Anti-Feminist Movement.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which female executive is quoted as saying she hopes companies can treat "career-and-family women" more leniently than "career-primary" women?

2. Faludi suggests that movies are used by men to deal with their emotions concerning women. How does she suggest this is done?

3. Select the woman who becomes a popular Christian speaker and broadcaster, and in 1978 publishes The Spirit-Controlled Woman, calling on fundamentalist women to overcome passivity and develop a public voice--all by and for Jesus.

4. Which of these is not a goal of the New Right?

5. Why do politicians, journalists, and business leaders claim that women need no more help advancing?

(see the answer key)

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