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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. Why does Faludi believe Warren Farrell's loses his enthusiasm for the feminist movement?
(a) All answers are correct.
(b) Women are unhappy that he is a spokesman for the movement.
(c) Feminism is fading in the media.
(d) He is tired of defending his position.

2. What are the findings of the 1987 survey conducted by Fortune magazine on the issue of "bailing out," the term used to describe female MBA students opting for less demanding careers to concentrate on marriage and family?
(a) It finds a tiny gender gap--with more women than men putting family over professional advancement.
(b) No answers are correct.
(c) It finds a tiny gender gap--with more men than women putting family over professional advancement.
(d) It finds no gender gap--both men and women are putting family over professional advancement.

3. Yankelovich Monitor surveys find that "masculinity" is often defined as a man being a "good provider." This has negative implications for which of the following aspects of the feminist movement?
(a) Women's increasing presence in the political arena.
(b) Women's desires to control their own fertility.
(c) Women's choices of fashion and clothing.
(d) Women's drive for economic equality.

4. Faludi identified which of the following books as the most widely quoted and influential feminist work in the 1980s?
(a) In a Different Voice.
(b) Ms. Still.
(c) Sex and Destiny.
(d) Sexual Personae.

5. Which researcher finds no statistically significant difference in how the sexes reason morally in nineteen Kohlberg studies?
(a) Zella Luria.
(b) Lawrence Walker.
(c) Carol Gilligan.
(d) Susan Brownmiller.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Which backlash proponent calls himself "America's Number-One Anti-feminist"?

3. Which of the following women is cited in the book as being consistently shut out of the Emmys, disapproved of in public by George Bush, and having a nationwide club formed just to hate and revile her?

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

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

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