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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 1989 which Ivy League university commissioned a survey that confirmed the findings of the Fortune magazine research on female MBA students "bailing out"?
(a) Harvard.
(b) Yale.
(c) Columbia.
(d) Stanford.

2. After the pop media launches its assault on single womanhood and increasing divorce numbers, what does Faludi quote as the percent drop in divorce rates?
(a) 2.2 percent.
(b) 20 percent.
(c) 0.2 percent.
(d) 2.0 percent.

3. Medical journals define codependency as individuals doing which of the following?
(a) Selecting dysfunctional life partners.
(b) Ending unfulfilling relationships.
(c) Choosing to live with more than one adult partner.
(d) Being unable to live without each other.

4. According to Faludi, the 1980s are awash with books about women's special virtues of:
(a) Nurturing.
(b) Contextual thinking.
(c) Caring.
(d) All of the Above.

5. When women boo Sheila Levine Is Dead and Living in New York, Faludi sees this as an indication that women want to embrace single womanhood. She says this because of which of the following?
(a) They prefer the ending in the novel in which the author does not feel the need to marry off the single women. They do not like the wedding scenes and prefer more romantic settings.
(b) They disagree with the ending in the novel in which the author does not feel the need to marry off the single women.
(c) No answers are correct.
(d) They disagree with the choices of spouses and feel that the writers mismatched the female leads and the men that they marry.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which book provides the "devastating" statistics that there is a seventy-three percent decline in a woman's standard of living during the first year after divorce versus a man's forty-seven percent increase?

2. The major networks parade tearfully "penitent unwed" women through the media; Faludi highlights examples from all the following networks EXCEPT:

3. According to Backlash, attacking the feminist movement is accomplished by systematically using which of the following?

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

5. In Angels 88 screenwriter Brad Markowitz has been ordered to do all of the following except:

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