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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 4: Chapter 13.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The backlash seeks to divide and conquer by pitting women against each other. Faludi describes all of the following battle lines EXCEPT:
(a) Working versus homemakers.
(b) Young versus old.
(c) Affluent versus working poor.
(d) Single versus married.

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.
(a) Neil Bennett, David Bloom.
(b) David Bloom, Jeanne Moorman.
(c) Jeanne Moorman, Robert Fay.
(d) Patricia Craig, Neil Bennett.

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

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

5. Who casts his wife in the demeaning role of an unsmiling female doctor who clutches her book about obsession and compulsion?
(a) Adrian Lyne.
(b) Michael Douglas.
(c) James Dearden.
(d) David Mamet.

Short Answer Questions

1. Another blow to the feminist movement comes when the Supreme Court moves towards which of the following actions?

2. According to Toni Grant, self-assertion for women is abnormal and relinquishing control is naturally feminine. Therefore, when women attempt to control their own destiny they are in fact showing that they are _____________.

3. The author writes that the feminist movement is blamed for all the evil in ________ society.

4. After Reagan's accession to the presidency, Faludi writes that the two political parties do which of the following?

5. Sylvia Ann Hewlett worked at which university?

(see the answer key)

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