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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. Television assaults the women's movement less than Hollywood movies; Faludi states that this is because of what factor?
(a) Women are a majority of viewers and are advertisers' prime target.
(b) Hollywood movies have greater budgets and more freedom with their creativity.
(c) There are more women executives in the television industry who support the women's movement.
(d) Television producers do not wish to tackle these issues through on-screen programming.

2. Which of the following claims to be the "media's number one psychologist," broadcasting live, nationwide, from Los Angeles?
(a) Toni Grant.
(b) Robin Norwood.
(c) Teresa Bernardez.
(d) Karen Horney.

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

4. According to Backlash, attacking the feminist movement is accomplished by systematically using which of the following?
(a) Research on children's opinions.
(b) Grassroots movements of husbands and fathers.
(c) No answers are correct.
(d) Popular culture.

5. What percentage of younger women feel more akin to NOW than to either political party?
(a) 83 percent.
(b) 75 percent.
(c) 50 percent.
(d) 28 percent.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Carol Gilligan's criticism of Lawrence Kohlberg's six-stage ladder?

2. _________ and ________, two demographers at the Census Bureau, re-run the Harvard-Yale study using 1980 data and find a major flaw in the study and its calculations.

3. Which of these is not a goal of the New Right?

4. Faludi notes that after Reagan becomes president, which of the following are among the political victims?

5. Medical journals define codependency as individuals doing which of the following?

(see the answer key)

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