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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. By ignoring women's issues in his acceptance speech, which presidential candidate sees his twenty-four percent gender gap decease to only eight percent by Election Day?
(a) Ronald Reagan.
(b) Michael Dukakis.
(c) George Bush.
(d) Jimmy Carter.

2. Whose design house loses $9.3 million in 1989?
(a) Christian Dior.
(b) Calvin Klein.
(c) John Weitz.
(d) Christian Lacroix.

3. According to Faludi, men's opposition to women's rights and the feminist movement is a source of:
(a) Justification for the struggle.
(b) Resentment and stress.
(c) Motivation.
(d) Passivity.

4. Faludi notes that rarely do the backlash's "force and furor" become as public as when which of the following occurs?
(a) When women's clinics are shut down due to systematic lobbying efforts.
(b) When women's clinics are awarded additional funding.
(c) When women's clinics are firebombed.
(d) When prominent politicians deliver speeches against feminism.

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. George Gilder writes that family is the ______________ so males denied this are apt to________________.

2. Which of these is not a goal of the New Right?

3. According to Faludi, the pay gap in 1986 is actually what?

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

5. Why does Faludi believe Warren Farrell's loses his enthusiasm for the feminist movement?

(see the answer key)

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