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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. In 1988, at every level, writes Faludi, women candidates above the state legislature are at record low numbers and those who run generally lose. What does Faludi blame for this trend?
(a) The anti-activist agenda pushed by Charlene Heatherly.
(b) The "public drubbing" of Geraldine Ferraro.
(c) The hard-nosed tactics used by the press against any woman candidate.
(d) All answers are correct.

2. As the health care industry continues to convince women they need medical attention, the market increases for which of these services?
(a) Colon cleansing.
(b) Diet clinics.
(c) No answers are correct.
(d) Chemotherapy.

3. By ignoring women's issues in his acceptance speech, which presidential candidate sees his twenty-four percent gender gap decease to only eight percent by Election Day?
(a) Ronald Reagan.
(b) Michael Dukakis.
(c) George Bush.
(d) Jimmy Carter.

4. Which book shows Reagan's influence in criticizing the welfare state and pushing volunteerism and individual responsibility?
(a) The Second Stage.
(b) No answers are correct.
(c) In a Different Voice.
(d) The Feminine Mystique.

5. In the book Backlash, attackers of the feminist movement are described as working to put women back in their "proper" place _________________ and __________.
(a) Physiologically, emotionally.
(b) Morally, ethnologically.
(c) Psychologically, physically.
(d) Relationally, traditionally.

Short Answer Questions

1. Surveys show that an overwhelming majority of women feel there is still a need for all of the following EXCEPT:

2. By questioning whether the "backlash" is a new phenomenon, some social observers admit that there has been:

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

4. Faludi states that in 1986, NBC and Cosmopolitan warn women of three side effects of divorce including:

5. Backlash is written in which decade?

(see the answer key)

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