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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. Faludi writes that all of the following designers try to push femininity onto working women except:
(a) Calvin Klein.
(b) Christian Lacroix.
(c) Christian Dior.
(d) John Weitz.

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

3. Faludi asserts that under the Reagan administration which of the following are pressured to generate data that fit the war on women's independence?
(a) U.S. Department of Education statisticians.
(b) University researchers.
(c) Media organizations receiving federal grants.
(d) U.S. Census Bureau demographers.

4. In 1984, who is the highest-placed woman in the New Right?
(a) Beverly LaHaye.
(b) Connaught ("Connie") Marshner.
(c) Phyllis Schlafly.
(d) Faith Whittlesey.

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 family unit and how it can be torn apart.
(b) An individual's responsibility for a stranger's suffering.
(c) The plight of a suburban housewife.
(d) A middle-aged man's fight for monogamy.

Short Answer Questions

1. As the health care industry continues to convince women they need medical attention, the market increases for which of these services?

2. "It's All in Your Mind" looks at ¬¬_______________ in the 1980s backlash.

3. Fatal and Fetal Visions deals with how the_________ serve the backlash.

4. Which of the following claims to be the "media's number one psychologist," broadcasting live, nationwide, from Los Angeles?

5. Faludi identified which of the following books as the most widely quoted and influential feminist work in the 1980s?

(see the answer key)

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