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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. George Gilder writes that family is the ______________ so males denied this are apt to________________.
(a) Greatest gift to men and women, resent the women who will not marry.
(b) Death of the American male, enjoy greater freedom.
(c) Acid test of manhood, devolve into brutes.
(d) All answers are correct.

2. Which of the following women bets a male reporter that she will marry by forty?
(a) Diane Doe.
(b) Cecelia Gouge.
(c) Elia Kazan.
(d) Patsy Howell.

3. What three relationship trends increased in the 1950s?
(a) Unhappy single womanhood, women marrying to conform to societal expectations, and women fleeing unhappy marriages.
(b) Happy single womanhood, women marrying to conform to societal expectations, and women forcing husbands into counseling to save unhappy marriages.
(c) Happy single womanhood, women marrying to conform to societal expectations, and women fleeing unhappy marriages.
(d) Happy single womanhood, women marrying on their own terms, and women fleeing unhappy marriages.

4. Which of the following occur following Reagan's second term in office?
(a) A greater number of conservative women begin to support the Democratic candidates.
(b) The number of female appointments drops below the level achieved during Reagan's first term.
(c) The New Right criticizes Reagan for not supporting its agenda more strongly during his first term.
(d) No answers are correct.

5. 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 five percent first-year rise for men.
(b) A three to five percent first-year rise for men.
(c) A thirty percent first-year decline for women.
(d) A twenty percent first-year decline for both men and women.

Short Answer Questions

1. George Gilder, a Reagan speechwriter, states that the women's movement does all of the following EXCEPT:

2. 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?

3. Which of the following women had oversight of the funding from the Women's Educational Equity Act?

4. In the late 1980s, circulation of traditional women's magazines is down sharply with Good Housekeeping the worst off and Working Woman the best off. To what does Faludi attribute the relative success of Working Woman?

5. Faludi asserts that equal attention is given to _______ family size in whites and ________ family size among blacks.

(see the answer key)

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