Backlash: The Undeclared War against American Women Quiz | Eight Week Quiz F

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Backlash: The Undeclared War against American Women Quiz | Eight Week Quiz F

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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. According to Faludi, cosmetic companies try to increase sales by ___________ their products.
(a) Cleaning up.
(b) Reducing.
(c) Augmenting.
(d) Medicalizing.

2. Advertisers tell women career success is harming their complexions and causing all of the following except:
(a) Hair loss.
(b) Dry skin.
(c) Dandruff.
(d) Weight gain.

3. According to Faludi, how are female characters treated in morality tales?
(a) Women are not judged according to their lifestyle choices.
(b) Good mothers win, and single women are always envious of those in traditional roles.
(c) Good mothers win, and independent women are punished.
(d) Good mothers are punished, and independent women win.

4. Which backlash proponent calls himself "America's Number-One Anti-feminist"?
(a) George Gilder.
(b) Warren Farrell.
(c) Michael Levin
(d) Allan Bloom.

5. What is the complete title of the book, Backlash?
(a) Backlash: The Declared War Against American Families.
(b) Backlash: The Declared War Against American Women.
(c) Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Families.
(d) Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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:

2. The "Big Lie" joins ____________ to the "dime-store moralism of yesteryear."

3. According to Faludi, thirty years of data show that men suffer __________ __________ than do women.

4. Faludi suggests that Western European "social feminists" have a better record with childcare and maternity leave because of which of the following?

5. Grant concludes that women's liberation is a set of "big lies" that lead to all of the following EXCEPT:

(see the answer key)

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