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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. Paul Weyrich is defined by Faludi as all the following EXCEPT:
(a) Viewing women's liberation as a dangerous lie.
(b) The "Father of the New Right."
(c) Founder of the Heritage Foundation.
(d) Considering feminism as a dead issue.

2. Surveys show that an overwhelming majority of women feel there is still a need for all of the following EXCEPT:
(a) An Equal Rights Amendment (ERA).
(b) Decent childcare.
(c) Child-rearing courses.
(d) The right to abortions.

3. In the 1980 presidential election, the only clear differentiation from the Democrats comes when the Republicans do what according to Faludi?
(a) Put forth an anti-abortion platform.
(b) Oppose the ERA.
(c) All answers are correct.
(d) Revoke the Equal Pay Act

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

5. Faludi states that in 1986, NBC and Cosmopolitan warn women of three side effects of divorce including:
(a) Childlessness, bitterness, and financial ruin.
(b) An empty bank account, bitterness, and loneliness.
(c) Depression, loneliness, and an empty bank account.
(d) Loneliness, depression, and childlessness.

Short Answer Questions

1. The "Big Lie" joins ____________ to the "dime-store moralism of yesteryear."

2. Faludi asserts that the decade's only real infertility epidemic is among young _____ women and is caused largely by the failure to treat ______ early on.

3. Part 2 of the book The Backlash in Popular Culture looks at trends in all the following media EXCEPT:

4. ***Poet Robert Bly speaks to mostly all-male audiences about healthier views of masculinity in the time of all of the following EXCEPT:

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

(see the answer key)

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