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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. In 1980 sex discrimination and other kinds of complaints filed before which agency climbs twenty-five to forty percent?
(a) The ERA.
(b) NOW.
(c) The EEOC.
(d) No answers are correct.

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

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

4. Which of these is not a goal of the New Right?
(a) Censoring of birth control information.
(b) All answers are correct.
(c) Revocation of the Equal Pay Act.
(d) A ban on all abortions.

5. Women Who Love Too Much: When You Keep Wishing and Hoping He'll Change is written by which of the following authors?
(a) Karen Horney.
(b) Robin Norwood.
(c) Toni Grant.
(d) Teresa Bernardez.

Short Answer Questions

1. The backlash seeks to divide and conquer by pitting women against each other. Faludi describes all of the following battle lines EXCEPT:

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

3. How does the Faludi describe the media's treatment of protests against the Miss America pageant and burning bras?

4. Which of the following magazines uses the Harvard-Yale study to sell minis?

5. In 1989 which Ivy League university commissioned a survey that confirmed the findings of the Fortune magazine research on female MBA students "bailing out"?

(see the answer key)

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