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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. Yankelovich Monitor surveys find that "masculinity" is often defined as a man being a "good provider." This has negative implications for which of the following aspects of the feminist movement?
(a) Women's desires to control their own fertility.
(b) Women's choices of fashion and clothing.
(c) Women's increasing presence in the political arena.
(d) Women's drive for economic equality.

2. Faludi claims that Robin Norwood stops making speeches, divorces, and withdraws into a "shell-like existence" after which of the following events?
(a) She realizes she is unable to have a baby.
(b) She is unable to command large crowds at events.
(c) She claims that she is unable to escape the feminist movement.
(d) She finds that her recovery by marrying the "right" man is short-lived.

3. Guess Jeans' advertising campaign is based variously on all the following except:
(a) Fatal Attraction.
(b) Fellini's La Dolce Vita.
(c) Thirty-Something.
(d) Elia Kazan's Baby Doll.

4. What outlet first declares that women's chances of conceiving drops not after age forty but after thirty?
(a) U.S. Census Bureau.
(b) The New England Journal of Medicine.
(c) U.S. National Center for Health Statistics.
(d) French researchers Schwartz and Mayaux.

5. Faludi asserts that a major objective of the attack on feminism is the desire to:
(a) Encourage women to band together.
(b) Break women's political will.
(c) Destroy the family bond.
(d) Return to capitalist traditions.

Short Answer Questions

1. By questioning whether the "backlash" is a new phenomenon, some social observers admit that there has been:

2. According to Faludi, cosmetic companies try to increase sales by ___________ their products.

3. How does Women's Wear Daily serve the feminist movement and the fashion industry?

4. According to Faludi, rather than helping women to overcome the problems with misogyny, the book If I'm So Wonderful, Why Am I Still Single? suggests that women can be happy only if they do all of the following EXCEPT:

5. In Angels 88 screenwriter Brad Markowitz has been ordered to do all of the following except:

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