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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. Backlash is written in which decade?
(a) 1970s.
(b) 1960s.
(c) 1980s.
(d) 1950s.

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

3. Women send positive letters after the heroine walks away from the altar in which movie?
(a) Flashdance.
(b) The Graduate.
(c) Fatal Attraction.
(d) Private Benjamin.

4. Faludi suggests that Western European "social feminists" have a better record with childcare and maternity leave because of which of the following?
(a) The American feminist movement has been undercut by the backlash.
(b) Europeans are more in tuned with the needs of women.
(c) Postwar European governments must rebuild their populations.
(d) The European feminist movement is more effective in attaining its goals.

5. The term "strong-armed into motherhood" is used by Faludi to describe which of the following movies?
(a) Fatal Attraction.
(b) Broadcast News.
(c) Crossing Delancey.
(d) Baby Boom.

Short Answer Questions

1. The New Right select which of the following adjectives to describe feminism?

2. In 1988, at every level, writes Faludi, women candidates above the state legislature are at record low numbers and those who run generally lose. What does Faludi blame for this trend?

3. If I'm So Wonderful, Why Am I Still Single? (1988) was written by which of the following authors?

4. According to Faludi in Chapter 1, all of the following attack feminists EXCEPT:

5. What is the theme of Chapter 8, "Beauty and the Backlash"?

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