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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 the books, Smart Women/Foolish Choices and Women Men Love/Women Men Leave women are told that their problems stem from which of the following choices?
(a) Delaying childbearing.
(b) Delaying marriage.
(c) Delaying career entry.
(d) No answers are correct.

2. How does Women's Wear Daily serve the feminist movement and the fashion industry?
(a) It convinces women to buy into overly feminine and exploitive clothing to work; male fashion designers create these clothing lines and women buy the attire.
(b) It convinces women to buy into overly feminine and exploitive clothing to work; male fashion designers attempt to fight against the trend, but this is what women want to buy.
(c) It tries unsuccessfully to convince women to buy into overly feminine and exploitive clothing to work; male fashion designers attempt to fight against the trend, but this is what women want to buy.
(d) It tries unsuccessfully to convince women to buy into overly feminine and exploitive clothing to work, male fashion designers create these clothing lines and women do not buy the attire.

3. Faludi states that which of the following is less harmful to women than other forms of plastic surgery?
(a) Liposuction.
(b) None of the above.
(c) Tummy tucks.
(d) Breast implants.

4. According to Faludi what was one of the radical suggestions made by Franham and Lundberg's Modern Women?
(a) Providing day care centers at all jobs with at least 20 women employed.
(b) Subsidizing psychotherapy to get neurotic women married.
(c) Suggest that the government approve family counseling programs.
(d) Helping women to understand that they must fulfill their own career goals.

5. According to Backlash, career women are warned that their choice to delay pregnancy and childbirth are resulting in which of the following?
(a) Endometriosis.
(b) Higher incidents of birth defects.
(c) Higher miscarriage rates.
(d) Greater abortion rates.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose design house loses $9.3 million in 1989?

2. In her timeline of women's cosmetic trends, Faludi states that the bright, healthy, athletic look is popular in which era?

3. Which of the following women is one of the co-authors of the book No More Lonely Nights?

4. In the summer following the 1988 election, which women's organization held a conference at which a motion passes to discuss a third political party?

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

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