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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. The "Big Lie" joins ____________ to the "dime-store moralism of yesteryear."
(a) Undercover journalism.
(b) Legal maneuvering.
(c) Scientific research.
(d) Religious dogmatism.

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

3. An analogy is made between heiress Patricia Hearst and many female characters of the 1980s. Which of the following expresses the comparison?
(a) Carrying a light load in a backpack to symbolize the ease with which committed women face motherhood.
(b) Being bound, blindfolded, and lacking identity to symbolize having to flee the office for marriage and motherhood.
(c) Having two heavy weights in each hand to symbolize the choice between marriage and single womanhood.
(d) No answers are correct.

4. Faludi asserts that equal attention is given to _______ family size in whites and ________ family size among blacks.
(a) Increasing, limiting.
(b) Increasing, increasing.
(c) Limiting, increasing.
(d) Limiting, limiting.

5. British directory/screenwriter James Dearden's screenplay makes the adulterous husband more sympathetic; however, according to Faludi, it was intended to be an exploration of what?
(a) The plight of a suburban housewife.
(b) An individual's responsibility for a stranger's suffering.
(c) A middle-aged man's fight for monogamy.
(d) The family unit and how it can be torn apart.

Short Answer Questions

1. What percentage of younger women feel more akin to NOW than to either political party?

2. Select the woman who becomes a popular Christian speaker and broadcaster, and in 1978 publishes The Spirit-Controlled Woman, calling on fundamentalist women to overcome passivity and develop a public voice--all by and for Jesus.

3. Unmarried, childless after forty, hooked on work, a 1970s feminist and the third generation in her family to have a low view of "traditional femininity." This is Faludi's description of which market research trend executive?

4. Faludi asserts that a major objective of the attack on feminism is the desire to:

5. Women Who Love Too Much: When You Keep Wishing and Hoping He'll Change is written by which of the following authors?

(see the answer key)

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